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 AND SPEAKER OP THE HOUSE OF PEERS 5 
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 THE UNITED KINGDOM, 
 
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SECOND SERIES. 
 
 CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME, 
 
 CONTAINING SIXTY ENGRAVINGS AND ONE VIGNETTE. 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 NAME. COUNTY. POSSESSOR. 
 
 TTLE ABBEY, as Title Sussex SIR GODFREY VASS ALL WEBSTER, BART. 
 
 DERMANSTON Berkshire WILLIAM CONGREVE, ESQ. 
 
 TTO, The Staircase DITTO. 
 
 [GLEFIELD HOUSE RICHARD BEN YON DE BEAUVOIR, ESQ. 
 
 >LME PARK ROBERT PALMER, ESQ., M.P. 
 
 OTTESBROOKE HOUSE ARTHUR VANSITTART, ESQ. 
 
 [COMBE Dorsetshire EARL OF ELDON. 
 
 LLWORTH CASTLE THOMAS WELD, ESQ. 
 
 5LBURY EARL OF ILCHESTER. 
 
 TTO, Vignette DITTO. 
 
 LTON ABBAS LADY CAROLINE DAMER. 
 
 ERBORNE CASTLE EARL OF DIGBY. 
 
 lRNONS Herefordshire.. SIR JOHN GEERS COTTERELL, BART. M.P. 
 
 LRNSTONE SAMUEL PEPLOE, ESQ. 
 
 5NTCHURCH JOHN LUCY SCUDAMORE, ESQ. 
 
 INGWORTH ROBERT BIDDULPH PHILLIPPS, ESQ. 
 
 [ARLTON HOUSE Kent SIR THOMAS MARYON WILSON, BART. 
 
 IOTSCRAY PLACE LORD BEXLEY. 
 
 >LWOOD JOHN WARD, ESQ. 
 
 !ES COURT LORD SONDES. 
 
 JNSHURST, PI. I SIR JOHN SHELLEY SIDNEY, BART. 
 
 TTO, PI. II DITTO. 
 
 TTO, PI. Ill DITTO. 
 
 )TES COURT LORD TORRINGTON. 
 
 ANDISH HALL Lancashire .... CHARLES STANDISH, ESQ. 
 
 )LLAND HOUSE Middlesex LORD HOLLAND. 
 
 LEDEGAR Monmouthshire.. SIR CHARLES G. MORGAN, BART. M. P. 
 
 IAYTON HOUSE Northamptonshire DUKE OF DORSET. 
 
 TTO DITTO. 
 
 .ENDON HALL JOHN BOOTH, ESQ. 
 
NAME. COUNTY. POSSESSOR. 
 
 COTHELSTONE HOUSE Somersetshire... EDWARD JEFFRIES ESDAILE, ESQ. 
 
 DILLINGTON HOUSE JOHN HANNING, ESQ. 
 
 ENMORE CASTLE EARL OF EGMONT. 
 
 HINTON ST. GEORGE EARL POULETT. 
 
 KING WESTON WILLIAM DICKENSON, ESQ. M.P. 
 
 MONT ACUTE HOUSE JOHN PHELIPS, ESQ. 
 
 DITTO , DITTO. 
 
 SANDHILL PARK SIR THOMAS B. LETHBRIDGE, BART. M 
 
 WELLS PALACE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 
 
 KING'S BROMLEY HALL Staffordshire.... MRS. LANE. 
 
 NORBURY PARK Surrey HENRY P. SPERLING, ESQ. 
 
 ARUNDEL CASTLE Sussex DUKE OF NORFOLK. 
 
 DITTO DITTO. 
 
 ASHBURNHAM PLACE EARL OF ASHBURNHAM. 
 
 BATTLE ABBEY SIR GODFREY VASS ALL WEBSTER, BAI 
 
 PARHAM PARK LORD DE LA ZOUCHE. 
 
 LONGFORD CASTLE Wiltshire EARL OF RADNOR. 
 
 SWINTON PARK Yorkshire WILLIAM DANBY, ESQ. 
 
 WILTON CASTLE S IR JOHN LOWTHER, BART. M P. 
 
 DITTO DITTO. 
 
 SCOTLAND. 
 
 DONIBRISTLE Fifeshire.. EARL OF MORAY. 
 
 LEE PLACE Lanarkshire SIR C. MACDONALD LOCKHART, BAR" 
 
 WISHAW LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON. 
 
 DALKEITH Midlothian DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENS. 
 
 BERRY. 
 
 FINGASK Perthshire SIR PATRICK M. THREIPLAND, BART. 
 
 KILGRASTON JOHN GRANT, ESQ. 
 
 KINFAUNS CASTLE LORD GRAY. 
 
 DITTO DITTO. 
 
 OCHTERTYRE SIR PATRICK MURRAY, BART. 
 
 IRELAND. 
 
 FOATY ISLAND , Cork JOHN SMITH-BARRY, ESQ. 
 
 BALLYFINN Queen's County. SIR CHARLES HENRY COOTE, BART. M 
 
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atoermanston House, Berltsinre; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 WILLIAM CONGREVE, ESQ. 
 
 The little town of Aldermanston lies on the southern border of the 
 County of Berks, adjoining to Hampshire, not far from the Roman town 
 of Silchester in the latter county. The Manor of this place, before the 
 conquest, was a part of the possessions of Earl Harold, and was after- 
 wards in the King's hands, till Henry I. granted it about the year 1100, 
 with six others in this County, to Robert Achard. A confirmation of 
 the grant is still preserved at Aldermanston. In the 20th of Edward t. 
 another Robert Achard had a grant of a Market and Fair at Alderman- 
 ston, and also of the right of free warren in his Manors of Alderman- 
 ston, Sparsholt, Estmanton, Westcote, Sulhamstead, &c., all in the 
 County of Berks. This grant was confirmed by Queen Elizabeth, and 
 there is also an exemplification of it in the beginning of the reign of 
 George III. 
 
 " At Sparsholt," says Leland, " lyith one of the Achards, honorably 
 " buried in a chapel annexid hard to the side of the paroche chirche, 
 '* having a chantry, and on eche side lyith a wife of his. There is 
 " a commune saying that the one of them was a Duches, and the other a 
 " Countes. But this saying hath little appearance of truthe. There 
 " was a younger brother of the house of the Delamares of Noney 
 " Castle Co, Somerset, and he, by praeferrement of marriage had 
 " about the tyme of Edwarde the Hid. the daughter and heyre of 
 " Achard, a man of fair landes in Berkeshire. Sir Thomas Delamare 
 " Knt. of the Sepulchre, the last of this house had a son caullid John, 
 "and he dying afore Thomas his father, left two daughters; whereof 
 " one was married to George Forster, father to Sir Humfre that now 
 " lyvith ; the other to Morton, of Dorsetshire, kinsman to Cardinal 
 * Morton ; but she had no children, and so the landes of this Delamare 
 " cam totally to Forster, and so v. of the vii. Lordships of Achard 
 " above spoken, be yet in Sir Humfrede Forster's handes that now 
 
 most dwellith at Aldermanston." 
 
 " The house of Sir Humfrede Forster in Barkeshire cam oute of the 
 " house of Forsters of Northumberlande, of whom one of late tyme 
 " was caullid Sir Thomas Forster, and was Marschal of Barwicke. This 
 " youngger brother of the Forsters of Northumberlande were first 
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ALDERM ANSTON HOUSE. 
 
 <e planted in Edwarde the Ill.d's tyme, aud by his advancement to faire 
 " landes in Somersetshire, by the partes where a late priory of Barly 
 " was. The fair lordeship of Harpeden, and fair auncient and large 
 " Manor-place with dobil courtes standing- in Oxfordshire within 
 '* half a mile of Henle upon Tamise longgid to the Harpedens, gen- 
 " tilmen of fame and cam to the Forsters. Then Popham a gentilman 
 " of very faire landes in Southamptonshire dyid withoute issue male, 
 " about Henrye VI. dayes, and leving four daughters, they were thus 
 tC maryid, to Forster, to Barentine, to Wadham, to Hamdene. Humfrede 
 " Forster, grandfather to Syr Humfrey Forster now lyving, married 
 " this Popham's daughter." 
 
 This Humphrey, who married Popham's daughter, was Sheriff of Ox- 
 fordshire and Berks, in the 15th of Edward IV., and was knighted as 
 appeared by his monument in the old church of St. Martin in the Fields. 
 His son, Sir George, was the person who married the heiress of Dela- 
 mare, as before-mentioned, and in her right became seated at Alder- 
 manston. He was made Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Prince 
 Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII., and was Sheriff of the counties of 
 Oxford and Berks in the 8th of Henry VIII. He lies buried with his 
 wife in a chapel situate on the south side of the church of Alderman- 
 ston, under a splendid Alabaster tomb, whereon are the figures of a 
 Knight in armour, and his lady lying by him in the dress of the times : 
 on the north side of the monument are the figures of eight sons 
 standing in armour, as on the south side are eight daughters in their 
 usual habits ; there are also at the foot three more sons. 
 
 His son, Sir Humphrey Forster, contemporary with Leland, was 
 one of the Esquires of the body to Henry VIII., and attended his 
 sovereign to Boulogne in 1520. He received the honour of knight- 
 hood the year after his father's decease, and was well disposed towards 
 the protestants, even in the most dangerous times. He boldly declared 
 to Henry VIII., " that never any thing went so much against his con- 
 science, which under his Grace's authority he had done, as his attend- 
 ing the execution of three poor men martyred at Windsor." He had 
 several grants from the king for his court services ; among others, the 
 adjoining manors of Wasing and Stratfield Mortimer, and the office of 
 Keeper of Freemantle Park, in Hampshire, the two latter for his own 
 life only. Sir Humphrey married Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Sandys, 
 of the Vine in Hampshire, and was father by her of William, who 
 is buried in a chapel situate on the south side of the church of Alder- 
 manston. This William left a son named Humphrey, who was knighted 
 in 1592, and died in February 1601, leaving issue a son named Wil- 
 liam, who was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James I. 
 He married Mary, daughter of Sir Mark Stuart of the Isle of Ely, by 
 whom he left an only son named Humphrey, who was created a baronet 
 
 in May 1620. 
 
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ALDEBM ANSTON HOUSE. 
 
 In 1636, Sir Humphrey Forster Bart., and his wife Anne, daughter 
 of Sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, in Hants, built the magnificent 
 family mansion now remaining in its original state, as appears by the 
 inscription still existing over the door-ways of the principal front. It 
 will be seen by the annexed View (Plate I.), that the exterior presents 
 nothing particularly striking to the eye in point of architecture. It is a 
 large brick mansion with a bold blocked cornice, having two doors in the 
 principal front, adorned with twisted columns. The interior, however, 
 claims more particular notice. A passage, similar to the screens in 
 more ancient houses and colleges, leads into a large well-propor- 
 tioned hall of an oblong form, two stories high, having a handsome 
 spacious gallery entirely round it. In most of the windows throughout 
 the house are impaled the arms of the ancestry of the family from an 
 early period. The dining-room is large and handsome, with one of 
 those ponderous chimney-pieces so characteristic of the age in which 
 it was built. The great drawing-room is over the dining-room, and 
 more richly ornamented with carving and gilding ; the chimney-pieces 
 of both reaching nearly to the ceilings. However little we might 
 admire those kinds of ornaments, if they were now first erected, they 
 gain a venerable effect from time, which by the associations of the fancy 
 gives infinite delight to the contemplative mind. The Staircase affords 
 a specimen of rich internal decoration, so indicative of domestic gran- 
 deur that we have selected it for the subject of Plate II. All the 
 other rooms, which are many and spacious, are after the same fashion : 
 those in the back front look into an avenue in the park, which has been 
 considerably enlarged, and surrounded with an entire new paling by the 
 present proprietor, who has also had the mansion thoroughly repaired, 
 but without in any degree altering the original style of the building. 
 The park now consists of about 750 acres, and contains many very 
 venerable oaks, several of them more than 20 feet in girth, probably 
 coeval with the original grant of the Manor by Henry I. Close adjoin- 
 ing to the Mansion is the parish church, with a spire of wood ; its 
 appearance is venerable and picturesque; it is shewn in our first 
 Plate. 
 
 Sir Humphrey Forster lived to be aged, being alive in 1661. His 
 son, William, died before him, having married Elizabeth, only child 
 of Sir John Tyrrell of Herons, in Essex, (by his first wife,) by whom 
 he had three sons, of whom two died without issue, before their mother, 
 and one daughter married to William Pert Esq., of Essex. Sir Hum- 
 phrey, the eldest son, married Judith, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir 
 Humphrey Winch, of Hawnes, Bart., by whom he had several children, 
 who all died in their father's life-time. By his death, without any sur- 
 viving issue, in December 1711, the baronetage and male line of the 
 Forsters of Aldermanston, became extinct. This estate then went to 
 his niece, Elizabeth, who married William Forster Esq., of Bamburgh 
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ALDERMANSTON HOUSE. 
 
 Castle, in Northumberland, but he dying without issue in 1700, she 
 re-married William, third Lord Stawel, who, possessing this seat in 
 right of her, frequently made it his residence. He died in 1742 (she 
 surviving him till 1748), leaving issue an only child Charlotte, who 
 married in 1752, Ralph Congreve Esq., and brought the estate to him. 
 Mr. Congreve was the only son of Colonel Ralph Congreve, Lieutenant 
 Governor of the Garrison of Gibraltar, who was a younger brother of 
 John Congreve, Esq., of Congreve, in the county of Stafford, a family 
 (according to Dr. Johnson, in his Lives of the Poets,) " of so great an- 
 tiquity that it claims a place among the few that extend their line beyond 
 the Norman Conquest." Mrs. Congreve dying in 1762 without issue, 
 and indeed without any, except very distant, relations, gave the whole 
 of her estates in this and other counties to her husband absolutely, 
 and he by his will settled them on the elder branch of his own family. 
 
 Pictures at aioerman^ton tymw. 
 
 LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 Elizabeth, Lady Stawel, Niece of Sir 
 Humphrey Forster. 
 
 LITTLE DINING ROOM. 
 King Henry VIII. 
 King- Edward VI. 
 Queen Elizabeth. 
 Thomas, Lord Cromwell. 
 
 GREAT DINING ROOM. 
 
 Major-General Sir William Congreve, 
 Bart., Equerry to the King-, and Comp- 
 troller of the Royal Laboratory. 
 
 Landscape. — Gnupar Poussin. 
 
 Bead Game. — -C levenburgh. 
 
 Queen Esther before A hasuerus. — Tin- 
 toretto. 
 
 HALL. 
 
 Colonel Christopher Congreve, of the 
 time of Charles II. 
 
 Ditto, at the age of 84. 
 
 John Congreve, of Congreve in Stafford- 
 shire, Esq. 
 
 The Rev. Charles Walter Congreve, 
 Archdeacon of Armagh. 
 
 William Congreve, of Congreve, Esq., 
 Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th Regi- 
 ment. 
 
 Five Portraits of the Forster Family. 
 
 Three Portraits of Ladies of the families 
 of Harwood and Nichols in Shrop- 
 shire. 
 
 GREAT DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 Mrs. Congreve, daughter of Sir William 
 Pepperrell, Bart. 
 
 Jane, wife of William Congreve, Esq., 
 and daughter of Robert Waller Esq., 
 of Allenstown, in the county of Meath. 
 
 Colonel Ralph Congreve, Lieutenant Go- 
 vernor of Gibraltar. 
 
 Ralph Congreve, of Alderroanston, Esq. 
 
 A Picture of Mr. Congreve the Poet, 
 when very young. 
 
 Mrs. Congreve, wife of John Congreve, 
 Esq., daughter of John Harwood Esq. ; 
 and Miss Harwood, her sister.— Sir 
 Godfrey Kneller. 
 
 Lieutenant General Sir William Con- 
 greve, Bart. Royal Artillery. 
 
 Mrs. Curtis, sister of John Congreve, 
 Esq.— Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 
 Mr. Congreve the Poet. — Ditto. 
 
 Anne, wife of Col. Ralph Congreve, 
 and daughter of the Rev. William 
 Hanmer, cousin of Sir Thomas Han- 
 mer, Speaker of the House of Com- 
 mons. 
 
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Cnglefteltj-^ouse, fcerkshtre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 RICHARD BENYON DE BEAUVOIR, ESQ. 
 
 Englefield House is in the hundred of Reading, and deanery of 
 Newbury, about six miles west of Reading-, and forms a conspicuous 
 object to the north of the Bath Road. At a very early period this 
 Manor was held under the baronial family of Somery. But a family 
 of still greater antiquity, who derived their name from the village, 
 more particularly claims notice in this place. John Englefield, who 
 lived in the reign of Henry III., is represented by the pedigrees of the 
 family, to be the sixth in descent from the first settler of the name 
 at this village. Roger de Englefield was Knight of the Shire in 1307, 
 whose descendants frequently filled the same post, and also served the 
 office of Sheriff. At the commencement of the sixteenth century, we 
 find two of the family discharging the functions of Judges. In the 
 Reign of Queen Elizabeth this manor became forfeited to the Crown, 
 owing to the conviction of Sir Francis Englefield, for being concerned 
 in the plot of rescuing- Mary Queen of Scots out of the hands of the 
 English Sovereign. The Act of Attainder being passed, a grant of the 
 Manor was made to the celebrated Secretary of State, Sir Francis 
 Walsingham. 
 
 John, Marquess of Winchester, became possessed of the Englefield 
 Estate, by marrying the Lady Honora Burgh, daughter of the Earl of 
 Clanrickard, by the daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Walsingham. 
 Englefield House, exhibited in the annexed engraving, was built by the 
 Marques after the demolition of Basing House in Wiltshire, where he 
 had made so noble a defence against the Parliamentary Army during 
 the troubles in the Reign of Charles I. In a treatise, called " Counsel 
 and Advice to all Builders,'" published in 1663, by Sir Balthazar Ger- 
 bier, the author, in his dedication to the Marquess of Winchester, 
 passes a high compliment upon that nobleman for the taste displayed 
 in the erection of Henfelde House, as he calls it. He describes it as 
 (< a well-seated palace, with a wood at its back, like a mantle about a 
 coat of arms;" and adds that, <* its present satisfaction must diminish 
 its owner's grief for the loss of Basing." 
 
ENGLEFIELD-HOUSE BERKSHIRE. 
 
 Upon the death of the Marquess, his only surviving son, Lord Francis 
 Paulet, took possession of the Englefield Estate, and bequeathed it 
 upon his demise to an only daughter Anne, who married the Rev. Na- 
 than Wrighte, a younger son of the Lord Keeper Wrighte. Upon the 
 death of Nathan Wrighte, Esq. in 1789, Englefield devolved to the late 
 Richard Benyon, Esq., son of Governor Benyon, by the widow of 
 Powlett Wrighte, Esq , elder brother of the last mentioned Nathan. 
 The present proprietor of this seat, grandson of the Governor, in 1822 
 took the additional name of De Beauvoir; having, in 1814, taken the 
 names of Powlett Wrighte. 
 
 To return to the Englefield family. — Francis Englefield, nephew of 
 Sir Francis above-mentioned, was, upon the accession of James I. to 
 the English throne, in consideration of his uncle's sufferings in the 
 cause of Mary Queen of Scots, created a Baronet, being described of 
 Wotton Basset, in Wiltshire. His posterity occasionally resided at a 
 house in this village, which had been for so many generations the 
 abode of their ancestors. This house was sold in 1792 by Sir Henry 
 Charles Englefield, to the father of the present proprietor. 
 
 In the north aisle of the chancel of the parish church are several 
 monuments of the Englefield family, for whom it was built as a burial 
 place in 1514. In the south aisle is a monument to the memory of the 
 famous John, Marquess of Winchester, the defender of Basing House, 
 who died in 1674, with an epitaph from the pen of Dryden, appropriately 
 laudatory. Mr. Benyon de Beauvoir is patron of the Rectory. 
 
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THE SEAT OF 
 
 ROBERT PALMER, ESQ., M.P. 
 
 Holme Park, in Sonning, lies three miles nearly east of Reading, 
 on the banks of the Thames. From a period, anterior to the Norman 
 Conquest the Manor of Sonning was held by the Bishops of Salisbury, 
 and the Manor-house was, for some centuries, their occasional resi- 
 dence Frequent mention is made of this place by the chroniclers of 
 former days. King John was at Sonning in the year 1216 from the 
 8th till the 14th of September. In 1389, says Holinshed, the Bishop 
 of Salisbury being at his manor-house at Sonning, was informed of 
 the secret practices of the Wickliffites. It was at the Bishop of Salis- 
 bury's manor-place of Sonning, that Isabella, the young queen of 
 Richard II resided, during the period of that unfortunate monarch's 
 captivity in Pomfret Castle. Bishop Neville dates from Sonning, in 
 1436 In Leland's time, there existed " a fair old house of stone at 
 Sonninge by the Tamise ripe, longing to the bishop of Saresbyri, 
 and thereby a fair parke." The Manor remained attached to the See 
 of Salisbury, until the year 1574, when it was given in exchange by 
 Edmund, the then bishop, to Queen Elizabeth, for estates in Dorset- 
 shire King Charles I. granted it in 1628, to Lawrence Halstead and 
 Abraham Chamberlain, with whom it did not long remain, for we find 
 it soon afterwards in the possession of the family of Rich, who seated 
 themselves at Sonning, about the year 1650. Sir Thomas Rich, who 
 was created a Baronet in 1660, upon the restoration of Charles II., had 
 been a great friend to the suffering clergy, during the usurpation of 
 Cromwell, and had entertained, under his roof, the deprived Bishop 
 Brownrigg. His descendants enjoyed the title until the death of Sir 
 Thomas Rich, Admiral of the Blue, in 1803, when it became extinct 
 
 In 1795 the last Baronet sold the Manor of Sonning to Richard 
 Palmer Esq., father of the present proprietor. Soon after the pur- 
 chase, Mr. Palmer resolved to fix his country residence at Sonning, 
 and in consequence built a handsome Mansion, the subject of the 
 annexed Engraving. It is a square building, of white brick ; and its 
 principal front, which is the View we have selected, is adorned with a 
 bold circular portico. 
 
HOLME PARK, BERKSHIRE. 
 
 The situation of Sonning is described by Leland, as " an uplandish 
 toune, but set on a fair and commodious grounde. The Tamise rennith 
 under it in a pleasant vale." The parish, which extendsjnto Oxford- 
 shire, contains about 10,000 acres. In the Church are some monu- 
 ments of the Rich family : the most conspicuous is that to the memory 
 of Sir Thomas Rich, the first baronet, who died in 1667. In 1773, 
 the fee of the parsonage and rectorial manor, which, from time imme- 
 morial, had been annexed to the deanery of Salisbury, was vested by 
 Act of Parliament in the late Mr. Palmer, grandfather of the present 
 proprietor, subject to an annual payment to the Dean and Chapter of 
 Salisbury, who have peculiar jurisdiction in the parish, and are patrons 
 of the vicarage. 
 
 Robert Palmer, Esq., the present owner of Holme Park, possesses 
 extensive landed property in Sonning and its vicinity, and is one of 
 the representatives in Parliament for the County of Berks. 
 
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hottesbroofte Pousse, Berkshire; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 ARTHUR V ANSITTART, ESQ. 
 
 This handsome commodious residence is in the hundred of Barnersh, 
 four miles south-west of Maidenhead, and eight west of Windsor. 
 Our View exhibits the two Garden-fronts. It is a substantial brick 
 edifice, covered with stucco, and surmounted by an embattled parapet. 
 A neat corridor leads to the interior from the garden. 
 
 The Manor of Shottesbrooke was anciently held by a singular species 
 of grand serjeanty, viz., by the service of providing charcoal to make 
 the crown and other regalia for the king's coronation, the sum of 
 60 shillings and 10 pence being allowed for the same. This singular 
 tenure originated in the time of William Rufus, when the Manor of 
 Sotesbrok, as it was then called, was held by Alward the Goldsmith. 
 
 A family who took their name from the village, were the most 
 ancient possessors of this demesne, of whom mention is found. About 
 the beginning of the fourteenth century it passed by an heiress to the 
 respectable family of Vis de Lou, but these last possessed it a very 
 short time ; for we find, the Manor, in 1340, held by Sir William Trus- 
 sell, who obtained for himself and successors, a charter of exemption 
 from expeditating his dogs. A descendant of this Sir William Trussell, 
 who died in 1481, left a son named Edward; the same, it is supposed, 
 who became a knight banneret, and whose only daughter married 
 John Vere, Earl of Oxford. This nobleman, who dissipated the greater 
 part of his fortune, is recorded to have disposed of Shottesbrooke to 
 Thomas Noke. From this last-mentioned proprietor, the Manor passed 
 into the family of Powle, who possessed it in the reign of Elizabeth ; 
 from them it passed to the Cherrys. The representatives of Francis 
 Cherry, Esq., who died in 1713, sold the estate to an ancestor of the 
 present proprietor, Arthur Vansittart, Esq. 
 
 Here were formerly the remains of a small religious house, founded 
 in 1337 (11th Edw. III.) by Sir William Trussell, of Cublesdon, Staf- 
 fordshire, Knight. The foundation consisted of a College and Chantry, 
 dedicated to St. John the Baptist, for one warden, five priests or 
 chaplains, and two clerks. By virtue of letters apostolical, the Church 
 
SHOTTESBROOKE HOUSE, BERKSHIRE. 
 
 of Shottesbrooke was appropriated for the revenues of it. Although 
 Sir William took care to have it sufficiently endowed, yet, in the course 
 of a few years, owing to fire and other accidents, the foundation was 
 reduced to such a deplorable condition, that the whole establishment, 
 with the exception of John Bradford the warden, quitted it. Such 
 disastrous circumstances at length reaching the king's ears, he gave 
 licence to impropriate the Church of Battlesden in the same county 
 to it ; which was accordingly done in 1380. 
 
 Having received so considerable an accession to its revenues, toge- 
 ther with other benefactions, it continued in a flourishing state until 
 the suppression of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII. The 
 last warden was Dr. William Throckmorton, who lies buried in the 
 parish church. Henry Dodwell, Camden Professor of History in the 
 University of Oxford at the time of the Revolution, also lies buried in 
 this church. Having refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to King 
 William III., this celebrated Scholar was deprived of his professorship, 
 and retiring to the village of Shottesbrooke, took up his residence near 
 the church, where he passed the remainder of his life in strict intimacy 
 with Mr. Francis Cherry. 
 
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 (Sntomtie $$omt> Mmttsfyxt; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN SCOTT, 
 
 EARL OF ELDON, &c. 
 
 En combe is seated in a very deep vale that opens to the British 
 Channel on the south, and is about a mile and a half south-west from 
 Kingston. It seems to take its name from its situation on the extremity 
 of the island of Purbeck, i. e. End-Comb ; or according to Hutchins, 
 from its situation in a Comb or Vale, In-Comb. This estate is one of 
 the best in the island, consisting of arable and pasture, and has, from 
 its fertility, been distinguished by the name of the Golden Bowl. It 
 yields a greater plenty of grass, and more beautiful verdure than is 
 usually seen in the island. 
 
 It is conjectured that this Manor and Hamlet belonged, in ancient 
 times, to Shaston Abbey. In the 32d year of Henry VIII., it was 
 granted to John Lord Zouch, who at the same time had licence to 
 alienate it to Sir Thomas Arundel, Knt., and his heirs. After the 
 attainder of Sir Thomas in the 6th year of Edward VI., this Manor and 
 that of Remmescomb were granted to John Bourchier, Lord Fitz- 
 warren, to be held in chief by service of the fortieth part of a fee ; 
 and in the same year he had licence to alienate Encombe to Robert 
 Culliford and his heirs. In 7th Edward VI., it was granted to Mar- 
 garet, wife of Sir Thomas Arundel, in confirmation of her dower 
 for life. But this does not seem to have taken place, for it was ever 
 after the property and seat of the Cullifords, a family that came out of 
 Devonshire. 
 
 William Culliford, Esq., Commissioner of the Customs in Scotland, 
 died without issue in 1723, and was succeeded in the possession of 
 Encombe by his brother Robert, who died in 1728. In the 7th year 
 of George II., an act was passed for the sale of this Manor and Farm ; 
 soon after which it was purchased by Mrs. Lora Pitt, who gave it to 
 her second son, John Pitt, Esq. : from him Encombe came into the 
 possession of his son, William Morton Pitt, Esq., who, a few years back, 
 disposed of it to its present noble owner. 
 
 The ancient seat of the Cullifords being much decayed, was entirely 
 pulled down about 1734 by Mr. Pitt ; who on the same spot erected a 
 most elegant Mansion of Purbeck stone, laid out the grounds with great 
 taste, and made extensive plantations. It has a fine view of the 
 British Channel, and is esteemed one of the most beautiful and romantic 
 situations in tbis part of the kingdom. The facade of the building, 
 
ENCOMBE HOUSE, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 as seen in the annexed Plate, presents a centre with two wings. Each 
 wing consists of two sections; the roof of one having gables with 
 globular ornaments ; the other bordered with an embrasured parapet. 
 The wings are joined to the centre by a short corridor, having in front 
 four columns of the Doric order. 
 
 John Scott, Earl of Eldon, Viscount Encombe, of Encombe in the 
 county of Dorset, and Baron Eldon, of Eldon in the county of Durham, 
 was born on the 4th June, 1751, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in which 
 place his father carried on the business of a merchant. Applying himself 
 to the study of the law, his Lordship was admitted a member of the Society 
 of the Middle Temple in 1772, and rose through the different grada- 
 tions of office to its highest honours. Lord Eldon was called to the bar 
 in 1776 ; elected Member of Parliament for Weobly in 1783 ; appointed 
 Solicitor-General and knighted in 1788; Attorney-General in 1793; 
 Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in July, 1799, and at the 
 same time raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Eldon. His 
 Lordship was, in 1801, appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great 
 Britain : this high office he resigned in February, 1806, but was re-ap- 
 pointed in April, 1807. Upon the demise of the late King, George III., 
 his Lordship delivered up the great seal into the hands of His present 
 Majesty, who was graciously pleased to entrust it again to his Lord- 
 ship's custody ; and on the 6th July, 1821, as a further mark of royal 
 approbation, His Majesty was pleased to advance him to the dignity of 
 Viscount Encombe, in the county of Dorset, and Earl of Eldon. On the 
 1st of May, 1827, Lord Eldon once more resigned his office of Lord High 
 Chancellor, after having held that distinguished post nearly twenty-five 
 years, a far longer period than any of his predecessors. 
 
 As long as sterling ability, strict integrity, and impartial decision, 
 be considered as the distinguishing characteristics of a sound Lawyer 
 and conscientious Judge, so long will the name of Eldon conspicu- 
 ously shine forth. As a principal member of the administration of 
 public affairs, during one of the most eventful and glorious periods of 
 English history, his Lordship has a peculiar claim upon the gratitude 
 of his country, which all good men and sincere friends to our present 
 constitution in church and state will readily acknowledge. 
 
 Encombe is a favourite residence of its noble possessor ; and here at 
 intervals, removed from the busy scenes of official life, his Lordship has 
 for several years been accustomed to relax his mind and recruit his 
 health. 
 
 . Lord Eldon married Elizabeth, daughter of Aubone Surtees, of 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esq., by whom he has issue. His grand- 
 son, John, commonly called Viscount Encombe, is his Lordship's 
 successor. 
 Motto :Sit sine labe decus. 
 
iluiltoortb Castle, ©orsetshtte; 
 
 THE SEAT OP 
 
 THOMAS WELD, ESQ. 
 
 LullwortH Castle is situated about 12 miles from Weymouth, and 
 about a mile and a half from the sea. It is a noble pile of building in 
 the castellated style, and was erected between the years 1588 and 1609, 
 by the Earl of Suffolk (one of the Howard family), but having been 
 injured in the civil wars by the devastations of the soldiers, the interior 
 decorations were not completed until after the purchase of the Estate 
 by Humphrey Weld, Esq., in the year 1641. It is an exact cube of 80 
 feet, with a round tower at each corner, 30 feet in diameter, rising 16 
 feet'above the walls. The Mansion has three stories, but the towers 
 four ; in each front are three rows of four windows ; in the towers are 
 four rows of three each, exclusive of the offices, which are under ground 
 and arched with stone. The walls, which are embattled, are six feet 
 thick.— The Hall and Dining-room are large and handsome ; the apart- 
 ments in general spacious and lofty ; and in some of them are a few 
 good family portraits by Sir Peter Lely. Our View exhibits the prin- 
 cipal or eastern front of this noble Mansion. Before it is a lawn leading 
 to the landing-place, which is guarded by a balustrade of stone, and 
 called the Cloisters. This walk, which is also continued along the 
 north and south sides, is paved with the stones taken from the Cloisters 
 of Bindon Abbey in this vicinity ; and hence the origin of the name. 
 On the western side is a Terrace of the same height with the Cloisters. 
 Over the door, which is supported by pillars of the Ionic order, are the 
 statues of two ancient Romans in their gowns ; and on each side is a 
 large niche, and over them two shields, on which are the arms of Weld 
 properly blazoned. In the niches are the statues of Music and Painting. 
 The Tower of the Parish Church, which stands to the south of the Man- 
 sion, is also included in our View. 
 
 The Manor of East Lullworth, on which this edifice is situated, ap- 
 pears to have given its name to its ancient possessors, the De Lolle- 
 worths, who sold it in the reign of Edward I. to the Newburgh family, 
 and they held it till the time of Henry VIII. Christiana de Newburgh, 
 heiress of the family, conveyed it by marriage to her husband, Sir John 
 Marney, a female descendant of whom again transferred it to the How- 
 ards, and of them Humphrey Weld, Esq., the lineal ancestor of the pre- 
 sent proprietor, purchased it. 
 
LULLWORTH CASTLE, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 During the possession of the late proprietor, who was a Roman Catholic 
 a fraternity of Monks of the order of La Trappe, who had been 
 pelled from France at the time of the Revolution, found refuge on his 
 Estate, and occupied as a Monastery, during several years, some ex- 
 
 Z7\r; fi " ed UP enla ^ ed f0r the P-PO Upon 
 
 he death of the late Thomas Weld, Esq., the estate descended to to 
 son, who it is reported, has since retired into a monastery. The Castle was 
 afterwards inhabited by Mr. Baring ; this gentleman w'as unfortu™^ 
 drowned by the upsetting of a small boat off the coast and withS 
 of his family. More recently the Right Honourable Robert Peel late 
 pa t°of U^Tc P f nCipal SCCretarieS ° f State ' has been an occ ! 
 
 SSSSie present il is rented h * His Ro ^ H * h - 
 
 The Mansion has been repeatedly honoured by the visits of royalty 
 King James I. was here entertained in 1615. And in 1665 when 
 
 pLtTbTt r D st f d Y; he r at p^ *** 
 
 Clwlh T, .7, ^ ^ M ° nm0Utb ' made a ^rtstay at 
 
 GeoZ UT : Stat 1 Y Plle ^ juSt1 ^ admired ^ his Majesty 
 ^eoige III., who paid it more than one visit. In 1789, that monarch 
 
 ^ether with the Queen and three elder Princesses, canie " 
 Weymouth, and took up their residence here for a few weeks. In 1791 
 the sanie royal party repeated their visit by land, and spent several 
 hours in examining the castle and grounds. In 1792, their Majesties, 
 accompanied by the Prince of Wales, five of the Princesses, and other 
 members of the royal family, paid a third visit to this noble mansion 
 In commemoration of these royal visits, the worthy owner caused two 
 Latin insertions, on oval stones, to be placed over the door of the 
 principal front of the Castle. 
 
 The adjoining village of West Lullworth, or Lullworth Cove, as it is 
 commonly called, is remarkable for the romantic appearance of the 
 
 Tkk W t T W ° rn inl ° Vari ° US Curious forms - The re ™in S of the 
 Abbey of Bindon which, with the adjoining grounds, form a sort of ap- 
 pendage to the domain of Lullworth, are now preserved with care from 
 further spoliation. Trees have been planted, and the fish-ponds cleared 
 out and stocked with fish: in short, the extent and plan of the abbey 
 may clearly be traced. J 
 
 In point of uniformity, Lullworth Castle is not to be surpassed. The 
 large gardens and groves that surround it, add greatly to the beauty 
 and grandeur of the place. It commands a fine prospect of the sea 
 from an opening between the hills ; and from the top of the house there 
 is an extensive view to the north and east. The late proprietor, Thomas 
 Weld, Esq., built and fitted up a very neat private Chapel, for the use 
 of family worship He also erected an elegant Gothic building or 
 Hermitage, for the accommodation of parties resorting to view the ruins 
 of the old abbey. 
 
jWelfmtp, Borsetshtre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY STEPHEN FOX STRANG WAYS, 
 
 EARL OF ILCHESTER, &c. 
 
 I his Seat, one of the finest in the County of Dorset, was formerly the 
 Mansion House of the Sampfords, anciently Lords of the Manor of Mel- 
 bury, and was enlarged by Sir Giles Strangways the elder, in the 
 reign of Henry VII., or early in that of Henry VIII. Sir Giles, ac- 
 cording to Leland, " avaunced the inner part of the house with a lofty 
 and fresche tower," and is said to have used in its erection three thou- 
 sand load of free stone brought from Hampden Quarry, nine miles dis- 
 tant. — Thomas Strangways, senior, who died in 1713, rebuilt part of 
 the Mansion, but left the Tower and much of the old part of the House 
 untouched. 
 
 The House, which is 100 feet square, stands on a rising ground, and 
 fronts east, north and south. The annexed Plate shews the south 
 front ; and also includes the old tower, as seen in the north-west corner 
 of the building. The fronts are adorned with pilasters of the Corin- 
 thian order. Over the door, on the east side, is a shield, on which is 
 Strangways impaling Ridout. The carriage front is on the north side 
 of the house. The Hall is filled with family portraits, and the apart- 
 ments are both spacious and convenient, many of which command a 
 beautiful view of the fine sheet of water shown in the Plate, and of the 
 surrounding country. Amongst a great variety of curiosities, is pre- 
 
MELBURY, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 served an original Letter in the hand-writing of Oliver Cromwell, of 
 which the following is a literal copy : — 
 
 For y e h ble Coll: 
 
 E divard Whalley 
 
 at his quarters- 
 haste these. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I desire you to be with all my troopes and Collonell Ffines his troopes alsoe, 
 at Wilton at a Rendevous by break of day to morrow morneing, for we heare the enemy 
 has a designe upon our quarters to morrow. — morning. 
 
 Sr I am 
 
 Yr Cozen § Servant 
 Sarum, Wednsday Oliver Cromwell, 
 
 night at 12 a clock. 
 
 The Park and Grounds of Melbury are extremely picturesque, afford- 
 ing, in succession, hill and dale, verdant pastures, and the different 
 species of forest trees. At a short distance rises Bubdown Hill, from 
 whose summit an extensive view of the surrounding country is pre- 
 sented to the eye. The town of Shaftesbury, Glastonbury Torr, and 
 Alfred's Tower at Stourhead, together with the Mendip and Quantock 
 hills, may be seen from thence. 
 
 The ancient Lords of this place were the Sampfords, from whom it 
 descended, through females, to the Matravers's and Staffords, whose 
 heiress married Thomas Strangways, one of the family of that name in 
 Lancashire, and grandfather to Sir Giles the elder, before mentioned. 
 
 Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, Earl of Ilchester, Lord Ilchester, 
 Baron of Woodford Strangways, in the County of Dorset, and Lord 
 Ilchester and Stavordale, Baron of Redlynch, in the County of So- 
 merset, was born in February, 1787, and succeeded his father, Henry 
 Thomas, the late Earl, in September, 1802. His lordship married, in 
 1812, Caroline Leonora, daughter of the Right Hon. and Right Rev. 
 Lord G. Murray, late Bishop of St. David's, by whom he has issue. 
 Lord Stavordale, the Earl's eldest son, born in 1816, is his heir. 
 
 Sir Stephen Fox, the ancestor of the Earls of Ilchester, is famous in 
 the annals of his country for his steady attachment to King Charles II., 
 during that monarch's exile : and also as the projector of Chelsea 
 Hospital. His two sons, by his second marriage, were both advanced 
 to the dignity of the Peerage; the elder was created Earl of Ilchester ; 
 the younger, Baron Holland. Stephen, first Earl of Ilchester, married 
 in 1726, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Strangways Horner, Esq., by 
 Susanna Strangways, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas 
 Strangways, of Melbury, in the County of Dorset, Esq., who, on the 
 death of her sister Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton, became the sole 
 heiress of that ancient family. 
 
 Motto : — Fair e sans dire. 
 
jHtlton 90btras, ©orsetshtre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 LADY CAROLINE DAMER. 
 
 The town of Milton, originally Middleton, stands in the very centre of 
 the County of Dorset, and takes the adjunct of Abbas from its ancient 
 Lords the Abbots. According to Domesday-book, we learn that in the 
 time of the Conqueror, the Manor of Middleton belonged to the Abbey 
 which was founded by the Saxon King, Athelstan. Previous to the 
 Conquest, the whole Parish was held in chief of the King by the Monas- 
 tery ; the only service required in return being Prayers for the souls of 
 him and his successors. In order to render churchmen more depend- 
 ant on the Crown, the Conqueror seized all Church Lands held in frank 
 almoigne into his own hands, but soon after made a fresh grant of them 
 to be held of him by knights' service in chief. 
 
 In the reign of Henry VIII., upon the dissolution of monasteries, the 
 site of the house of Milton Abbas, with other demesnes, was granted to 
 John Tregonwell, Esq. in consideration of £1000 and forfeiture of a pen- 
 sion of £40 per annum ; to be held in chief by knights' service, as the 
 tenth part of a knight's fee. His cousin and heir, named likewise John, 
 who died in the 28th of Elizabeth, had livery of the premises mentioned 
 in the aforesaid grant. To him succeeded his son, who compounded 
 for his estate in the sum of £3735, for deserting the Parliament, and 
 residing in the King's quarters. 
 
 Sir Jacob Bancks, a native of Sweden, who married Mary, daughter of 
 John Tregonwell, Esq., and relict of Francis Lutterell, Esq., possessed 
 this estate in right of his wife, and transmitted it upon his death, in 
 1724, to his second son, Jacob Bancks, Esq. This gentleman dying 
 intestate in 1737, several claimants for the property rose up, the princi- 
 pal of whom were, Mr. Tregonwell, of Anderson, who claimed as heir 
 to Mr. Bancks on the mother's side, and Mr. Strachan, as heir on the 
 father's side. Betwixt these parties a law-suit was commenced, and 
 after considerable litigation, the affair was compromised, and Mr. 
 Strachan remained possessor of the property. To secure himself against 
 other claimants, Mr. Strachan procured an Act of Parliament to obviate 
 doubts that might arise on an Act made in the 12th year of the reign of 
 William III., to enable natural born subjects to inherit the estates of 
 their ancestor, either lineal or collateral, though their father and mother 
 were aliens. In 1752, Mr. Strachan sold this Mansion and Estate to 
 Joseph Darner, Esq., created Lord Milton in 1753, and Earl of Dorches- 
 ter in 1792. 
 
 This nobleman, about the year 1771, built the present magnificent 
 
 Mansion, on the site of the Abbey-House, and a more monastic situation 
 l. 
 
MILTON ABBAS, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 cannot well be conceived. It stands in a valley on a beautiful undulating 
 lawn, surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, whose summits are 
 crowned with woods planted with great taste. The form of the house is 
 a quadrangle, and it was designed by Sir William Chambers in the 
 pointed style, to correspond as much as possible with the architecture of 
 the Abbey Church. The Abbot's Hall, the only remaining part of the 
 old Monastery, is a good specimen of a monastic refectory, and also of 
 the old style of ornamenting a large room. It is still in its original state, 
 being fifty-three feet six inches long, and twenty-six feet six inches 
 broad. The compass roof is of Irish oak, finely wrought. A stone 
 pilaster that supports the roof bears the date 1498, supposed to be that 
 of its erection. On a piece of stone work that runs across the wall are 
 the arms of different families on stone shields. On an ancient carved 
 wooden screen at the lower end of the Hall, are three niches and two 
 doors : and the same date again occurs. On the south side of the Hall, 
 near the upper end, is an oriel, nineteen feet four inches long, and four- 
 teen feet eight inches broad. From the Hall, a passage leads to the 
 Drawing Room, containing some fine Paintings, a list of which is sub- 
 joined. On the same floor are the Dining Parlour, Library, &c. Above 
 is a suite of Rooms neatly furnished, the prevailing colour being pea. 
 green, or French grey, without the glare of ornament or gilding. The 
 paper corresponds with the furniture, being chosen from the chastest 
 patterns. 
 
 Lord Dorchester laid out the grounds which surrounded his Mansion 
 with great taste. The drives through the Plantations extend more than 
 ten miles within a ring fence ; the Park wall exceeds five miles in 
 length. The approach from Blandford is grand and imposing, through 
 an avenue of laurel-hedges, backed by timber trees. 
 
 The ancient Abbey Church stands to the south of the Mansion. The 
 form is that of a Roman T ; the nave or body being wanting. In the 
 reign of Edward II., A. D., 1309, the Abbey Church was destroyed by 
 lightning. It was re-built in its present form in the 15th of the same 
 King. It is a magnificent Gothic pile, consisting of a chancel, two aisles, 
 a transept, a large square tower at the intersection of the body and 
 cross aisles (see the View), supported by four noble arches. The com- 
 pass roof is vaulted with stone, and covered with lead. A few years 
 back, Joseph, Earl of Dorchester, employed Mr. Wyatt to direct the 
 repairs of this structure. At the same time the Altar-Piece, a rich 
 remain of the style of architecture that prevailed towards the close of 
 the 15th century, and which had been concealed with plaister in the 
 great rebellion, to prevent its defacement, was restored. The Abbey 
 is now the Private Chapel of the family, as LordDorchesler built a new 
 Church, Vicarage-house, and Alms-house in the village, forming very 
 picturesque objects. 
 
 ttofoniih,-. sitaeiioifl Worn ahaa .m'dH-v-HfdA oilJ ')o oiia o/f) ao-noisiusM. 
 
MILTON ABBAS, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 great rebellion, to prevent its defacement, was restored. This Church 
 is now the Private Chapel of the family, as Lord Dorchester built a new 
 Church for the more convenient accommodation of the inhabitants. 
 
 Milton Abbey did not experience that spoliation and ruin which befel 
 most religious houses at the time of the dissolution : this exemption was 
 owing to Sir John Tregonwell obtaining early possession of the premises 
 after the Order in Council had passed, whereby it remained nearly en- 
 tire until a late period. Hutchins, who had an opportunity of thoroughly 
 inspecting the remains of this monastic foundation, through the kindness 
 of his friend, Mr. Jacob Bancks, has left behind him an interesting 
 account of his visit to this Abbey, before it was pulled down to make 
 room for the present magnificent structure. According to this learned 
 author, its form was a long square. The north front was a very low 
 ancient range of building, with small narrow windows, supposed to be 
 the Dormitory and Cells of the Monks. The entrance was by a large gate 
 into a small Court, whose old buildings were all very irregular m form 
 and height, as was the case with the whole fabric. At the east end of 
 the Court was the old Abbey-Kitchen, which was pulled down in 1737. 
 The roof was vaulted with stone, and supported by a massy stone pillar ; 
 and it had two very large chimneys at each end. The western sides 
 seem to have been the Abbot's Lodgings. The south part at the upper 
 end of the Hall was re-built, in 1737, by Mr. Bancks, in order to make 
 some new apartments, but he lived only to finish the shell, and they were 
 completed by the Earl of Dorchester. The north part, where was the 
 great Dining Room, had under it the old cellar, which was beautified by 
 Sir John Tregonwell, as several family devices testify. 
 
 Joseph Darner, Esq., afterwards Earl of Dorchester, who died m 
 1798, was a native of the County Tipperary, in Ireland. His Lord- 
 ship married in 1742, Lady Caroline Sackville, daughter of Lionel, 
 Duke of Dorset, by whom he had issue three sons and a daughter. 
 Of the sons ; the eldest, named John, married Anne, daughter of the 
 late Field-marshal Conway, and died in 1776, without issue ; George, 
 the second son, upon the death of his father, succeeded to the Earldom ; 
 but dying unmarried, in 1808, the title became extinct, as Lionel, the 
 third son, who married Williamza, daughter of William Jansen, Esq., 
 died without male issue in 1806. The daughter, Lady Caroline Darner, 
 became the wife of Mr. Baron Grant, of Scotland, and is the present 
 possessor of the family estates. 
 
 %W of the principal Portrait* ana other painting*: at ^lilton abba*. 
 
 DINING PARLOUR. 
 The late Earl and Countess of Dorchester 
 
 in their Robes, -whole length— Copied 
 
 by Angelica Kaufman, from Paintings 
 
 by Pompeii Battoni. 
 The first Earl's Father and Mother — Co- 
 
 3. 
 
 pied by Kaufman, after Paintings by 
 
 Richardson. 
 Duke and Duchess of Dorset — Kaufman. 
 Lady Caroline Darner, only Sister of the 
 
 second Earl, sitting with a Dog and 
 
 Bullfinch. 
 
MILTON ABBAS, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 John Damer, Esq., of Ireland, sitting in 
 
 an Arm Chair— Copiedby Kauffmanfrom 
 
 a Picture painted in Ireland. 
 Jos. Damer, Esq., brother to John Damer. 
 John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, 
 
 three quarters length. 
 Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough — three 
 
 quarters length. 
 George Damer, Esq., Uncle to the late 
 
 Earl, in a Red Coat, and Standing 
 
 Posture. 
 
 ADJOINING ROOM. 
 
 Portraits of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, 
 and Sir E. Littleton. 
 
 DRESSING ROOM. 
 Lord George Sackville Germaine, after- 
 wards Viscount Sackville, — whole 
 length. 
 
 First Earl, when young, with a Dog — 
 
 whole length. 
 Elizabeth, Duchess of Dorset — whole 
 
 length. 
 
 John Damer, Esq. — three quarters. 
 Mrs. Damer, Daughter of General Con- 
 way. 
 
 The Roman Charity — Stenwick. 
 
 A Landscape — Teniers. 
 
 Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of 
 Clarendon — Greenhill. 
 
 The Duke of Alva on Horseback — Ru- 
 bens. 
 
 A Landscape — Gaspar Poussin. 
 Ditto — Teniers. 
 
 St. Francis — Mola; a very valuable Paint- 
 ing, 
 
 The Earl of Newport, natural Son of 
 Blount, Lord Mountjoy, Earl of Devon- 
 shire, created Earl of Newport by 
 Charles I. — whole length — Vandyke. 
 
 A Man's Head — Annibale Caracci. 
 
 A Young Man in a Persian Dress — Gior- 
 gio ne. 
 
 A Landscape — Gaspar Poussin. 
 Ruin and Cattle — Berghem. 
 The Embarkation of St. Ursula — Claude 
 Lorraine. 
 
 St. John Teaching in the Wilderness — 
 Mola. 
 
 Entombing Our Saviour — Carlo Lotte. 
 
 A Landscape — Bartolomeo. 
 
 Feeding of the Israelites — Bassano. 
 
 Virgin and Child — Carlo Dolci. 
 
 A Friar — Titian ; a choice Painting. 
 
 Holy Family — Andrea del Sarto. 
 
 Bacchus and Ariadne — Nicolo Poussin. 
 
 Tobit and the Angel — Andrea Sacchi. 
 
 A Bacchanalian Feast— Nicolo Poussin. 
 
 The Queen Mother, wife of Charles I. and 
 Daughter of Henry IV. of France, with 
 her favourite Dwarf, Jeffrey Hudson — 
 Vandyke. 
 
 A Man's Head — Cornelius Jansen. 
 
 A Woman Veiled — Baroccio. 
 
 A Portrait of Gerard Dow— By Himself. 
 
 St. Jerome — Guido. 
 
 St. John Baptizing in the Jordan — Salva- 
 tor Rosa. 
 4. 
 
 A small Sea-Piece.— Vandervelde. 
 
 A Landscape and Figures— Salvator Rosa. 
 
 Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, Daughter 
 
 of Charles I. — Sir Peter Lely. 
 A Portrait of Rembrandt— By Himself. 
 Cupid Breaking his Arrows— Simone da 
 
 Pesaro. 
 The Nativity— Stella. 
 
 DRAWING-ROOM, BELOW STAIRS. 
 
 The Countess of Mountrath— Jarvis. 
 Two small Portraits of Queen Anne, and 
 
 Prince George of Denmark. 
 Frederick, Viscount Newport — Sir Peter 
 
 Lely . 
 
 Lady Newport — Ditto. 
 
 The Countess of Bradford— Sir G.Kneller. 
 
 Mrs. Cheek and Child, after Vandyke— 
 
 Str P. Lely. * 
 Lord Newport — oval — Ditto. 
 Henry VIII.— Holbein. 
 Virgin and Child— Correoio. 
 A M onk's Head — Raphael, very fine. 
 A Landscape and Bridges — Copy from 
 
 Claude Lorraine. 
 Rinaldo and Armida— Grijfin^fter Claude 
 
 Lorraine. 
 A View of Gloucester — Vosterman. 
 Cupid Bathing— Greffier, after Claude 
 
 Lorraine. 
 A large Landscape — Wynarts. 
 Fruit and Dead Game— Snyders. 
 Architecture and Figures — Vivien. 
 St. Anne Teaching the Virgin— Michael 
 
 Angelo. 
 
 An Old Woman's Head— Martin Vos. 
 
 The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds— 
 Bassano. 
 
 Four Women and a Child— Ditto. 
 
 Soldi ers on Horseback — Bourgognone. 
 
 Snow-Ball Playing — Filippo Laura. 
 
 Old Fisherman and a Woman— John Miel. 
 
 Small Picture of a Capuchin Friar at De- 
 votion — Poelemberg. 
 
 A Landscape, Figures and Cattle— Adrian 
 Vandervelde. 
 
 Our Saviour, Martha, and Mary— Old 
 Stenwick. 
 
 A Man iti Red on Horseback — Bassano. 
 Peasants and Cattle — Berghem. 
 A Landscape, Cattle and Buildings — 
 Ditto. 
 
 A Landscape with Figures, velvet — Brue- 
 ghel. 
 
 Views of Venice — Canoletto. 
 
 Sleeping Christ — Vandyke, after Rubens. 
 
 View of Naples — Gaspar Occhiali. 
 
 The Victory of Constantine over Maxen- 
 ti us — Bourgognone. 
 
 A Flower Piece on Copper — Flowers by 
 Verelst ; Figures by Poelemberg. 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 A Portrait of the Present King, when 
 Prince of Wales. 
 
 Portraits of the Captains, with the Chap- 
 lain, in Lord Dorchester's Regiment of 
 Yeomanry Cavalry, three quarters 
 length — Beach. 
 
fttrboroe Castle, Dorsetshire ♦ 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDWARD DIGBY, 
 
 EARL OF DIGBY, &c. 
 
 The body of this noble Mansion was built by the famous Sir Walter 
 Raleigh, to whom a grant of Sherborne Castle and Manor was made in 
 1592, when he was at the height of his prosperity. Sir Walter at first 
 contemplated the restoration of the Castle, the ancient possession of 
 the bishops of Salisbury ; but changing his purpose, he laid the founda- 
 tion of the stately edifice which is represented in the annexed Plate. 
 It did not, however, assume its present appearance until after the resto- 
 ration, when the wings were added by the Earl of Bristol, out of the 
 ruins of the ancient castle. 
 
 The form of the Mansion is that of the letter H. The body or 
 middle part consists of four stories, with four six angled towers at the 
 end. These have been joined to four wings with a regular stone 
 balustrade at the top, and four towers more that finish the building. 
 The windows and gates are throughout of a yellow stone. A full and 
 interesting account of Sherborne Castle and grounds has been given 
 by Pope in a letter to Miss Blount, wherein the poet is so far trans- 
 ported with the beauties of the place, that the reader would conceive 
 he was describing an earthly paradise. And indeed, it must be allowed 
 that few spots in the kingdom abound with so many picturesque objects 
 as are to be met with on the grounds contiguous to Sherborne Castle, 
 Great praise is due to the taste and ability of Brown, better known 
 as capability Brown, who was employed by Edward, 6th Lord Digby, 
 in laying out and improving the place, for the manner in which he 
 executed his task. Under his direction, all that was wanting to give 
 the noble Mansion a proper effect was accomplished; so that now, when 
 viewed with the decorated grounds, the fine sheet of water, and the 
 hanging woods to the south, the building possesses particular interest. 
 
 The interior of Sherborne Castle is equally worthy of admiration. 
 The finest room is a Saloon 50 feet long, adorned with several very 
 good family portraits ; here also is a parlour hung with very excellent 
 tapestry of Romans, which was a present from the Kiug of Spain, to 
 the celebrated Earl of Bristol, when he was ambassador there. On 
 one of the windows may still be seen the arms of Sir Walter Raleigh, 
 with the date 1594. 
 
 In a walled Park, containing, with the gardens, 1172 acres, and well 
 Stocked with deer, are found some of the finest oaks in Dorsetshire. The 
 ruins of old Sherborne Castle are to the south of the present mansion, 
 upon the opposite bank of the canal. This fine sheet of water which 
 
SHERBORNE CASTLE, DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 was formerly an inconsiderable stream, known as the River Ivel, waff 
 formed by the skill of Brown. Over the narrowest part of it, a stone 
 bridge of three arches, leading to the principal entrance of the Mansion,, 
 was erected by Henry, 7th Earl Digby, from a design by Mr. Milne. 
 
 Edward Digby, Earl of Digby, Viscount Coleshill and Baron Digby 
 in England; also, Lord Digby, Baron of Geashill in Ireland, D. C. L., 
 Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Dorset, was 
 born in January, 1773 ; and succeeded his father, Henry the late Earl, 
 in September, 1793. 
 
 The family of Digby is of great antiquity in the County of Warwick, 
 and was first ennobled in the reign of James I., by whom Sir John 
 ^'gby> younger son of Sir George Digby, of Coleshill in the County of 
 Warwick, was created Baron Digby, and afterwards Earl of Bristol ; 
 which titles became extinct on the death of his grandson, John, 3d 
 Earl, in 1698. Sir Robert Digby, eldest brother of the first Earl 
 of Bristol, had a son named Robert, who was created Baron Digby in 
 Ireland, in 1620. His grandson Henry was created a Peer of Great 
 Britain in August, 1765, by the title of Baron Digby, and in November, 
 1790, advanced to the dignities of Viscount Coleshill, in the County of 
 Warwick, and Earl Digby, in the County of Lincoln. His Lordship 
 was twice married. His first wife was Miss Fielding, daughter of 
 Charles Fielding, Esq., brother to William, Earl of Denbigh, by whom 
 he had two sons, who died in their infancy. By his second Lady, Mary, 
 daughter of John Knowler, of Canterbury, Esq., he had issue Edward, 
 Ihe present and second Earl; and his brother, the Hon. and Rev. 
 Robert Digby, who is presumptive heir to the titles and estates. 
 
 Molto : — Deo non fortund. 
 
 & Itet of the principal picture* at &>tyxbovnt &m\u 
 
 Sir Stephen Fox and sister when young-. 
 Sir Stephen Fox and Lady — whole 
 length. 
 
 William, 5th Lord, commonly called 
 
 the good Lord Digby. 
 Lord Morning-ton reclining- on his right 
 hand ; in his left an ode to Henry Fox. 
 Edward, 6th Lord Digby, in furred 
 
 coat and hair. 
 Two family pictures ; 1. Henry, 1st Earl 
 of Digby with three sons ; and 2. Coun- 
 tess Digby, with a son and daughter. 
 Henry, 1st Earl of Digby— Sir J. Rey- 
 nolds — colours faded. 
 Countess Digby Knowler with a book j 
 
 Mrs. Knowler, her mother. 
 Also, on canvas, the famous procession 
 of Queen Elizabeth when she went to 
 St. Paul's to return thanks for the 
 defeat of the Spanish Armada. The 
 Queen is represented in an open sedan 
 carried by eight of the principal no- 
 blemen of her court. Others conjec- 
 ture that it is a procession of the 
 Queen from London to visit Lord 
 Hunsdon in Hertfordshire. Ascribed 
 to her Majesty's painter, Gerrards. 
 
 The three Earls of Bristol, of the Digby 
 
 family. 
 Sir Kenelm Digby. 
 
 ThomasWriothesley, Earl of Southampton, 
 Lord Treasurer, in hair, band, stafl' and 
 star. 
 
 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Trea- 
 surer Southampton, red gown, blue 
 mantle, right hand on her breast, left 
 on a couch. 
 
 Elizabeth, Countess of Southampton — 
 Cornelius Jans en — an excellent painting. 
 
 Robert, 1st Lord Digby, on wood, in ar- 
 mour, hat and feather, beard and ruff. 
 
 Robert, eldest brother of William, and 
 son of Kildare Lord Digby — Carlo 
 Marratti. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby, Lady Venetia, his 
 wife, and two Sons. — Vandyke. 
 
 Digby, Earl of Bristol, and Earl of Bed- 
 ford. — Vandyke. 
 
 Lewis XIII. 
 
 Anne of Austria, queen of Lewis XIII. 
 Late Duchess of Norfolk. 
 Earl of Ilchester, Sir Stephen Fox's eldest 
 Son. 
 
 Henry, Lord Holland, second Son of Sir 
 Stephen Fox. 
 
(garnons* iperefotUsim* ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR JOHN GEERS COTTERELL, BART., M. P. 
 
 The modern part of Garnons consists of a fine embattled Mansion, 
 situate about eight miles from Hereford, and twelve from the Hay, in 
 a southern aspect on the side of Bishopstone Hill. The surrounding 
 plantations formed by the present proprietor and his father, add greatly 
 to the beauty of the spot. The views from the House are various and 
 extensive, displaying many meanderings of the river Wye ; the banks 
 of which are remarkable for the variety of the Seats of the nobility and 
 gentry situated thereon ; some of which, viz., Garnstone, Longworth, 
 Kentchurch, and Rotherwas, have already appeared in this Work. 
 
 Garnons, though a modern structure, having been built by the 
 present proprietor under the super intendance of Mr. Atkinson, yet 
 bears a perfect resemblance to the old baronial Mansions of the thir- 
 teenth century, and of which Sizergh Hall, in Westmoreland, is a 
 good specimen. (See the 1st Volume of this Work, Second Series J 
 The annexed Plate exhibits a view of the carriage front of this noble 
 Edifice, the principal feature of which is the large square embattled 
 Tower rising from the centre. It stands on tw 3 raised Terraces, under 
 the upper one of which the entrance is formed through a handsome 
 Tudor arch. 
 
 The walks and drives are of very considerable extent; as also the 
 gardens and shrubberies, which are laid out with much taste. In 
 the house is a very good Museum, possessing scarce and valuable 
 articles ; and a Library containing many choice books. Amongst the 
 curiosities is a large Glass in a superb frame carved by Gibbons, and 
 a singularly rare carved oak Bedstead, on which tradition tells us the 
 unfortunate Charles slept after the battle of Worcester, and which was 
 removed to Garnons, from Hatfield, another seat belonging to this family, 
 situated on the borders of the county. 
 
 Sir John Geers Cotterell was for many years Colonel of the Here- 
 fordshire Militia, which was the first regiment that volunteered for 
 
GARNONS, HEREFORDSHIRE. 
 
 service abroad, and in the year 1798, Sir John took his regiment to 
 Ireland, to aid in suppressing the rebellion. He had been long known 
 to the county in a civil as well as military capacity, when in 1802 he 
 came forward at the general election, and was by the freeholders 
 returned as Knight of the Shire, since which time he has continued as 
 its Representative. At a period of public difficulty, Sir John raised 
 two battalions of volunteers, consisting of two thousand men, and this 
 force being afterwards transferred into two battalions of local militia 
 he was appointed their Colonel. On the 5th of October, 1805, Sir 
 John received a patent of Baronetage, as Sir John Geers Cottere'll of 
 Garnons, in the County of Hereford. Sir John is Lord of the Manors 
 of Mansel, Gamage, Shutton, Brobery, Kilkington, Bridge, Sellers 
 and Hatfield, in the County of Hereford. The worthy Baronet 
 married in January, 1791, Frances Isabella, only daughter and heiress 
 of Henry Michael Evans,^owley Grove, Esq., and has issue eight 
 children. Lady Cotterell died in July, 1813. 
 
 The family is descended from Edward Cotterell of Saintbury, in the 
 County of Gloucester, Esq., whose only daughter, Anne, married John 
 Brookes of Broadway in the County of Worcester, Esq., whose son 
 John Brookes, Esq., assumedjhe name and arms of Cotterell (pursuant 
 to the will of his uncle, Tfes Cotterell, of Saintbury, Esq.) and 
 married Mary, daughter of Thomas Jackson, Esq., of Welsbourn, in 
 the County of Warwick, by whom he had issue Sir Brookes Cotterell 
 Knight, who by Anne, only daughter and heiress of John Geers, of 
 Garnons, Esq., had issue the present Baronet. 
 
 Arms -.—Quarterly or, and argent, a Cross engrailed, per pale, 
 sable and gules, between three escallops, two in the sinister chief, and 
 one in the dexter base quarter, of the second, over all a bend, also of 
 the second. 
 
 Crest :— An Arm in armour supporting a Shield, argent, charged 
 with a Talbot's head, sable. 
 Motto : — Non rapui sed recepi. 
 
Garnstone House, %mi otoshtre i 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SAMUEL PEPLOE, ESQ. 
 
 Garnstone House is a modern erection, built by the present pro- 
 prietor, from designs furnished by Mr. Nash. The style of architecture 
 is the Gothic, and the whole building presents a fine castellated appear- 
 ance. The annexed View shews the principal front, with its mullioned 
 windows and handsome lancet-formed doorway, flanked on either side 
 by an octagon Turret. Over the door, is a neat oriel window. The 
 interior decorations exhibit a corresponding degree of taste and 
 elegance. The picfuresque scenery also by which the Mansion is sur- 
 rounded, contributes to render Garnstone one of the prettiest seats in 
 this part of the country. 
 
 The House and Grounds of Garnstone are situate about a mile south 
 of Weobly, in the vicinity of the Foxley-hills. This part of Here- 
 fordshire is singularly picturesque, and abounds in remains of anti- 
 quity. The whole is a fine-wooded country, extending southwards to 
 the river Wye, whose banks have furnished Gilpin, and other admirers 
 of landscape scenery, with so many subjects for the pencil and pen. 
 Lady-lift, appropriately styled the Queen of Hills, is one of the many- 
 beauties with which Garnstone is surrounded ; and from the summit of 
 this hill, the view opens in an extensive manner, including within its 
 range Credenhill Camp, which encloses a space of nearly thirty acres. 
 Whether this is the site of a British or Roman camp, is still a subject 
 of dispute with antiquaries. 
 
 Under the Plantagenet kings, the Town of Weobly appears to have 
 been a place of considerable importance. According to Leland, there 
 was in the feudal ages a Castle here, which was the Chief Lordship 
 of the Devereux family; who likewise became possessed of the Castle 
 of Leonshall or Lenshall, about two miles from Weobly, the ancient 
 demesne of the Marburges by an heiress of that noble house. 
 
 Garnstone formerly belonged to a family named Birch, and descended 
 from them to the father of the present possessor who took the name of 
 
GARNSTONE HOUSE, HEREFORDSHIRE. 
 
 Birch. Colonel Birch, so repeatedly mentioned by Clarendon and other 
 writers upon the great Rebellion, belonged to this family, and was 
 possessed of this Estate. 
 
 Samuel Peploe, Esq., the present proprietor of the Garnstone Estate, 
 married a daughter of Sir George Cornewall, of Moccas, in this county, 
 Baronet. 
 
THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN LUCY SCUDAMORE, ESQ. 
 
 The situation of Kentchurch is low, being placed in the midst of a 
 narrow valley ; yet the views from the house, looking into the Park, 
 are highly interesting : beyond is Garway Hill, rising to a considerable 
 height above the majestic timber in the fore gi*ound. Kentchurch Park 
 has indeed been long admired for its wild and picturesque scenery : 
 here may be seen every variety of beauty, from the stagheaded monarch 
 of the forest, the glory of former ages, to the perfect and vigorous 
 growth of a less distant period, while the more remote scenery inter- 
 spersed with churches and villages, of which, Grosmont with its ancient 
 castle stands pre-eminently conspicuous, bounded by the fine and lofty 
 range of the black mountains, forms a happy contrast to the forest-like 
 scenery of the Park itself, and affords one of the finest prospects to be 
 met with in this justly celebrated county. 
 
 The Mansion stands about twelve miles south-west from the city of 
 Hereford. Its erection was commenced by the late Colonel Scudamore, 
 father of the present possessor, by whom the building was completed, 
 after the death of the founder, partly from a design by John Nash, 
 Esq., with the addition of a porch designed by Mr. Tudor of Mon- 
 mouth, Mr. Scudamore's receiver, who, although not a professional 
 man, is considered to be well versed in the style of architecture here 
 adopted. The House stands exactly on the site of the original mansion 
 of the Scudamores, and the tower is actually part of the ancient struc- 
 ture. 
 
 The family of Scudamore is one of the oldest in this county, where 
 they held large possessions in the hundred of Ewyas at a very early 
 period. Of the two principal branches seated at Home Lacy and 
 at Kentchurch, the latter appears to be the elder house. This branch 
 has been settled here prior to the fifteenth century, about which time 
 Sir John Scudamore, of Kentchurch, married Elizabeth, daughter and 
 co-heiress of the celebrated Owen Glendower. The family have for 
 many years represented the city of Hereford, and continued to do so 
 till the present parliament, when Richard Scudamore, Esq., uncle of 
 the possessor of Kentchurch, retired on account of ill health. The 
 parish church contains but one monument of particular note ; this is 
 
KENTCHURCH PARK, HEREFORDSHIRE. 
 
 very large, and nearly fills up the whole east end of the chancel. It 
 bears an inscription to the following effect : — 
 
 " Here lyeth the body of John Seudamore, of Kentchureh, in the county of Hereford, 
 Esq., who married Amy, the daughter of John Starkie, of Darlie in the Countie 
 Palatine of Chester, Esq., by whom he had issue nine children, viz., eight sonnes 
 and one daughter, namely, John, Philip, Richard, Ambrose, Humphry, James, 
 Jonathan, Edward, and Mary, leaving- her with child of the tenth : he deceased 
 on the 30th day of March anno salutis 1616, set. 37." 
 
 The monument is of alabaster, and represents the deceased at full 
 length in a recumbent posture, and these arms : — Quarterly 1 st and 
 4th, gules, three stirrups, leathered and buckled, or. Seudamore. 
 2d. Lozengy, argent and sable, a*bend, gules. 3d. Barry nebulee of 
 four, gules and or, a canton, ermine. Impaling, quarterly, 1st and 
 4th, argent, a stork, sable. Starkie. 2d. Quarterly, azure and gules, 
 a lion rampant, or. 3d. Argent, a chevron between three moorhens, 
 gules. 
 
 Other Monuments in the Church connected with the family are the 
 following: — A small mural tablet with this inscription : — "Near this 
 place lies interred Lucy, the daughter of William Seudamore, Esq., by Pe- 
 nelope his Wife, who died 23d March, 1703, set. 6 months ; also John 
 their son, who departed this life August 2nd, 1713, set. 4." Above is, 
 the Arms of Seudamore, impaling, gules, a /ess, and in chief, two 
 pelicans vulning themselves, or. Lechmere, of Hanley Castle, Wor- 
 cestershire. 
 
 On flat stones are inscribed, " Here lyeth Captain Robert Seudamore, 
 who dyed the 12th of July, 1727, set. 69 and 6 months." "Walter 
 Seudamore, Gent. Son of John Seudamore, Esq. died 26 Nov. 1682. 
 
 The late Colonel Seudamore married the only daughter of James 
 Walwyn, Esq., of Longworth,.in this county, by whom he had one only 
 son who succeeded to the family estates at Kentchureh, &c, after a 
 very long minority, and married the eldest daughter of Sir Harford Jones 
 Brydges, Bart., of Boultibrook, Radnorshire. 
 
£ongtoortfi, f^ereforDsfjtre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 ROBERT BIDDULPH PHILLIPPS, ESQ. 
 
 Longworth, formerly called Longford, is in the Parish of Lug-- 
 wardine and Hundred of Radlow. The present Mansion, which was 
 nearly rebuilt about forty years ago, by Keck, in the time of the father 
 of the present owner, is a neat brick building, pleasantly situated at 
 the distance of a mile from the Hereford and Ledbury Road, and 
 commands an extensive view of the Malvern Hills, and of the Black 
 Mountains towards the east and west, while to the south the Village of 
 Mordeford, embosomed in trees together with a distant view of the 
 Mansion, and finely timbered grounds of Sufton, form a cheerful and 
 interesting picture. At a short distance from the House is Old Long- 
 worth, formerly the Mansion-house, though for many years converted 
 into a Farm-house. It is surrounded by a Moat, and contains nothing 
 worthy of observation, except the Chapel, which, though small, is a 
 very interesting specimen of the early perpendicular style. In a deed 
 of the time of Henry VI., there is mention of this Chapel, though pro- 
 bably it is not of a much earlier period. 
 
 The earliest possessors of this Manor, of whom any thing is known, 
 were the Longfords, a family who took their name from the place. In 
 a deed without date, is a grant of lands, by Walter de Longeford to 
 Roger de Houptaine. It afterwards passed into the hands of the 
 Tubervilles, who had purchased several parcels of land there. It 
 then became the property of the Pauncefortes, who kept possession for 
 a short period, as appears by a deed, dated 3d Edward II., whereby 
 Grimbald, son of Grimbald Paunceforte, granted it to Sir Edmund 
 Hakeluit in fee. 
 
 The next mention of this Manor, is the conveyance to Joan Lady 
 Beauchamp, by deed, 2d of Henry V. Four years afterwards, namely, 
 in 1418, it was purchased of this Lady by William Walwayn, and till 
 within a few years the original purchase deed was in existence. This 
 William Walwayn was a younger branch of the family of the Walwayns, 
 of Hellens, in the parish of Much Marcle, in this county, who deduce 
 their descent from Philip ap David, Lord of Walwayn Castle, County 
 Pembroke, in the time of William Rufus. He was Sheriff of Here- 
 fordshire, in the year 1409, and of Gloucestershire, 1411, and was 
 returned in the list of Gentry, in the 12th of Henry VI. 
 
LONGWORTH, HEREFORDSHIRE. 
 
 It appears from a pedigree in the Harleian Library, that towards the 
 latter end of the reign of Charles II., the Estate was sold by Nicholas 
 Walwayn or Walwyn, the then proprietor, to Herbert Croft, Bishop of 
 Hereford, who, about six years afterwards, sold it. again to James 
 Walwyn, a West Indian Merchant, first Cousin to Nicholas before- 
 mentioned. The issue of Nicholas having ended in females, the 
 descendants of James became the principal branch. In their family it 
 continued till the year 1805, when the last proprietor, James Walwyn, 
 Esq., whose father had been Member of Parliament for Hereford 
 many years, sold the Manor and Estate to his maternal Uncle, Robert 
 Phillipps, Esq., (a younger son of the family of Eaton Bishop, in this 
 County) who, for a short time, represented the City of Hereford in 
 Parliament. He married one of the daughters of Michael Biddulph, 
 Esq,, of Ledbury in this county, and of Cofton Hall, in the County of 
 Worcester, by whom he left several daughters, and an only son, to 
 whom the Estate passed on his death in the year 1822. 
 
 It is remarkable that although the family of Walwyn were so long 
 settled here, there is not a single memorial of them in the parish 
 church, though the Register abounds with entries of them from its 
 commencement, in 1538, till the present century. 
 
Charlton $ott8e» Hettt ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR THOMAS MARYON WILSON, BART. 
 
 This noble Manor-house was built in the reign of James I., by Sir 
 Adam Newton, Bart., tutor to Henry Px'ince of Wales. It stands at 
 the entrance of the village of Charlton, and is one of the richest speci- 
 mens of domestic architecture of the period of its erection. It is of 
 red brick, with two fronts ; the western or principal front, the subject 
 of the annexed Plate, being finely embellished with stone dressings, and 
 mullioned windows : the centre compartment, having a rich decorated 
 porch, is altogether of stone. The eastern front has the same number 
 of divisions, but is quite plain ; the roof is partly surmounted by a 
 pierced parapet. In front of the house was a long row of cypress 
 trees, of which three only remain ; and these are perhaps the oldest in 
 England : lofty elms now supply the place of those which failed. Behind 
 the house are large Gardens, and beyond these a small Park, which 
 joins to Woolwich Common. Dr. Plot says, there was a marble chim- 
 ney-piece in one of the Drawing-rooms of this house, so exquisitely 
 polished, that the Lord of Downe could see in it a robbery committed 
 on Blackheath, which at that time extended nearly to the House, where- 
 upon, sending out his servants, the thieves were taken. This chimney- 
 piece, however, although extremely bright, is much surpassed in 
 sculptural merit by that of the noble saloon adjoining, where the ceiling 
 is one of the richest of its times. 
 
 In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Charlton, or, as it was then 
 written, Ceorletone, was esteemed as two Manors, and was granted 
 after the Conquest by King William to his half-brother Odo, bishop of 
 Bayeux, under the general title of whose lands it is entered in the 
 survey of Domesday. It afterwards came into the possession of Robert 
 Bloett, bishop of Lincoln, King's Chancellor ; and was given by him, 
 anno 1093, to the Monastery of St. Saviour, Bermondsey. In the 
 reign of Henry VIII. the abbey of St. Saviour being surrendered into 
 the king's hands, this Manor came to the crown, and was confirmed to 
 the king and his heirs by the Act passed for that purpose. Queen 
 Mary granted this Manor, with its appurtenances, to Thomas White, 
 Roger Martin, and William Blackwell, to be held with other premises in 
 capite by the service of the 40th part of one knight's fee. 
 
CHARLTON HOUSE, KENT. 
 
 Subsequently, King James I. granted the Manor of Charlton to Sir 
 Adam Newton, Bart., who, as we have already stated, built the Gothic 
 Mansion above described. He also contemplated re-building the Parish 
 Church, but dying in January, 1629, before he could accomplish his 
 intent, this latter project was afterwards performed by trustees left for 
 that purpose. His son, Sir Henry Newton, Bart., having become heir 
 to a good estate in Warwickshire, removed thither, and sold this Manor 
 to Sir William Ducie, Bart., of Tortworth, in the County of Gloucester, 
 second son of Sir Robert Ducie, Bart., Alderman of London. Sir Wil- 
 liam Ducie was one of the Knights of the Bath at the Coronation of 
 King Charles II., by whom he was created Viscount Downe of the 
 Kingdom of Ireland. He died at this, his Manor-house, in 1697, and 
 was buried at Tortworth. Lord Ducie's executors sold this Manor to 
 Sir William Langhorne, Baronet, who, dying without issue, it came to 
 his nephew, Sir John Conyers, Bart. Sir John was succeeded by his 
 son, Sir Baldwin Conyers, who died without surviving male issue in 
 April, 1731, when the Manor of Charlton went by entail, first to Wil- 
 liam Langhorne Games, Esq., and afterwards to the Rev. John 
 Maryon, of the County of Essex, who left it by will to his sister, Mrs. 
 Margaretta Maryon in tail general. She conveyed it by marriage to 
 John Badger Weller, of Hornchurch, in the County of Essex, Esq., 
 by whom she had issue an only daughter, Jane, who married Sir Thomas 
 Spencer Wilson, Bart., of Eastbourne, in the County of Sussex, and 
 thus the estate came into the family of the present residents. 
 
 Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, eighth Baronet, was born in April, 1800, 
 and succeeded his father of the same name in July, 1821. This Baronet, 
 recently (1828) appointed High Sheriff for the County of Kent, is 
 descended from an ancient family in Yorkshire. Sir William Wilson, 
 first Baronet, so created in March, 1660, was a distinguished loyalist. 
 He died in 1685, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William, 
 who died in 1718. With the grandson of this last named Baronet, 
 who was next in succession, the male issue in this branch failed, in 
 consequence the dignity and a considerable part of the family estate 
 devolved upon Sir Thomas, only son of Thomas, fourth son of Sir 
 William, first Baronet, and father of Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, 
 sixth Baronet, who married the heiress of this property before-men- 
 tioned, by whom he had four children ; viz., Margaretta Elizabeth, 
 the present Lady Arden ; Jane, who married the late Right Honour- 
 able Spencer Perceval, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Maria, the pre- 
 sent Lady Trevelyan; and Thomas Maryon, seventh Baronet, who mar- 
 ried in 1799, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain James Smith, R. N. and 
 had issue, the present Baronet, three other sons and four daughters. 
 
 Arms : — Sable, a wolf rampant, and in chief three cstoils, or. 
 
 Motto : — Res non verba. 
 
j'oot^Crap Pace, Lent; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE NICHOLAS VANSITTART, 
 
 LORD BEXLEY. 
 
 This elegant Villa was built in the year 1752, by Bourchier Cleve, 
 Esq., on a parcel of the demesne lands formerly appertaining to Sir 
 Francis Walsingham, and near the spot where an old family mansion 
 had stood for ages. It is a square building with a Dome in the centre, 
 after a design of Palladio. It is enriched with an Ionic colonnade of 
 six three-quarter Pillars on three sides, and with a portico of the same 
 order at the entrance front to the north-west. The front selected for 
 our View, is the south-east, facing the River Cray, and differs from the 
 other sides inasmuch as it alone has a flight of steps, in every other 
 respect they are similar. There is a spacious Terrace on the south- 
 east side of the building. 
 
 Foot's-Cray Place holds a commanding situation on a gentle rise 
 from the River. Mr. Cleve further improved the estate by enclosing 
 the Park and embellishing it with plantations. This Gentleman's only 
 daughter married Sir George Yonge, Bart., who resided here a short 
 time, and had a valuable collection of Pictures, which were moved 
 to his house in Town, in 1772, when Foot's-Cray Place was sold to 
 Mr. Harenc. The present noble Proprietor has had possession of this 
 Seat from the year 1822 ; during which time he has made considerable 
 improvements, both in the house and grounds. 
 
 Foot's-Cray takes its name from the River Cray, and from Godwin 
 Fot, its owner in the reign of Edward the Confessor. It is situated in 
 the hundred of Ruxley, twelve miles from London, on the road to 
 Maidstone. The parish is bounded by Chislehurst, North Cray, Paul's 
 Cray, Bexley, and Eltham. 
 
 Nicholas Vansittart, Lord Bexley, Baron of Bexley, in the County of 
 Kent, was so created in March, 1823. His Lordship was born in 1766, 
 and married in July, 1806, Catharine Isabella Eden, second daughter of 
 William, first Lord Auckland, by which Lady, who died in 1810, he 
 had no issue. Lord Bexley was for many years Joint Secretary to the 
 Treasury; subsequent to which, upon the death of the late Right 
 
FOOT'S-CRAY PLACE, KENT. 
 
 Hon. Spencer Perceval, his Lordship was appointed Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer. This office he resigned in 1823, upon his elevation to the 
 peerage. 
 
 The family of Vansittart is of considerable antiquity in Germany. 
 Peter Vansittart, the common ancestor of the two branches of this 
 family in England, was an eminent Turkey merchant, and settled here 
 in the reign of William III. He died in March, 1705, leaving a 
 numerous offspring, of whom Arthur, the 5th son, was verdurer of 
 Windsor Forest, and settled at Shottesbrooke, in Berkshire, now the 
 residence of his descendant, Arthur Vansittart, Esq. Henry' the third 
 son of this Arthur, and the father of his Lordship, was born in June 
 1732 : in course of time he entered the East India Company's service' 
 and was Governor of Bengal. He had returned to England, but was 
 again sent out in conjunction with Messrs. Scrafton and Ford as 
 supervisors, to effect a reform in the administration of affairs Mr 
 Vansittart was appointed first Commissioner, and embarked in 1770* 
 on board the Aurora frigate, which vessel was unfortunately lost and 
 all on board perished by some calamity which has never come to 
 light. He married Amelia, daughter of Nicholas Morse, Esq., Governor 
 of Madras; and left three sons, of whom Lord Bexley was the youngest 
 and two daughters. The eldest son, Henry, died in India, leaving I 
 son, Henry, now living at Kirkleatham, in Yorkshire. 
 Motto: Grata quies. 
 
1 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN WARD, ESQ. 
 
 The new mansion at Holwood was erected in the year 1825, by the 
 present proprietor, from the designs and under the superintendence of 
 that eminent architect, Decimus Burton, Esq. The exterior presents an 
 uniform architectural elevation in the Grecian style ; the walls being 
 faced with the light-coloured bricks brought from Southampton, and 
 with the columns, pilasters, entablatures, window-dressings, and the 
 plinth, of solid Portland stone. 
 
 The South front, the part selected for our View, extends 180 feet in 
 length, and has a circular portico of four columns of the Grecian Ionic 
 order, and of the height of the building; in the wings are Doric columns 
 in recesses. The principal apartments are in this front, and consist of the 
 Dining-room, Saloon, Library, Drawing-room, Billiard-room, and Con- 
 servatory, en suite. The kitchen offices also occupy part of the south 
 front, but so concealed under the same elevation as to avoid the incon- 
 gruity sometimes observed, where, either from inj udiciousness, or with 
 the idea of economy, the domestic offices are seen attached to the 
 mansion in a character of architecture totally different. A handsome 
 Conservatory, principally constructed of Portland stone and iron, and 40 
 by 17 feet wide, forms the termination of the western wing. 
 
 The north, or entrance front is of the same extent, but of a plainer 
 character than the south front, with a recessed portico of two Doric 
 columns. The interior presents several well-contrived vistas through 
 l 
 
HOLWOOD, KENT. 
 
 the suites of apartments. The Saloon, which has an extremely pleasing 
 appearance, occupies the centre of the house, and extends two stories in 
 height, surmounted by a large lantern light, and supported by columns. 
 
 Although the rooms are not large, yet it may be truly said that the 
 architect has constructed at Holwood one of the most ornamental, con- 
 venient, and substantial mansions in this county. The scenery 
 around Holwood is very varied and extensive, owing to the elevat'un of 
 its site, the broken and undulating surface of the ground in the imme- 
 diate vicinity, and other local advantages. The present proprietor has 
 likewise been at great expense in embellishing the park and pleasure 
 grounds, and has entirely enclosed the former with a strong oak fence 
 extending about four miles in circumference; he has also built two 
 ornamental rustic lodges. 
 
 The old House, which was pulled down in the year 1823, had for- 
 merly been the favourite residence of the late Right Hon. William Pitt. 
 It was a small old plaistered brick building, but had long been tenanted 
 by various gentlemen, who delighted in fox-hunting at the time the 
 Duke of Grafton kept a pack of hounds in this neighbourhood. It after- 
 wards came into the hands of the late Mr. Calcraft, and served as a 
 house of rendezvous for the heads of one of the parties which at that 
 time divided the House of Commons. From Mr. Calcraft it came into 
 the possession of the Burrell family ; by them it was sold to Captain 
 
 Ross, and was purchased of him by Burrow, Esq., nephew of the 
 
 late Sir James Burrow, who stuccoed the house, added greatly to the 
 grounds by various purchases, grubbed and converted considerable 
 woods into beautiful pasture and pieces of water, and planted those orna- 
 mental shrubberies which rendered it so justly admired. An eminent 
 ship-builder, named Randall, purchased it of Mr. Burrow, and he after- 
 wards disposed of it to the Right Hon. William Pitt, who was a native 
 of the adjoining parish, and under whose own. personal superintendance 
 most of the ornamental plantations were made, which rendered the 
 Park so justly admired. 
 
 A correspondent in the European Magazine for December, 1792, has 
 been particularly facetious upon the subject of the. Right Hon. Gentle- 
 man's alterations on taking possession of Holwood. " The first order 
 issued," observes the writer alluded to, " was for the utter destruction 
 of theyba; earth, originating either from a natural antipathy to the animal, 
 or from too much of Fox in other places." As to the interior, the house 
 underwent no other alteration than the addition of a small draWing-roorn 
 covered with pantiles, and facing the whole with a curious new-in- 
 vented variegated stucco. Mr. Decimus Burton has preserved a sketch 
 of this old house, such as it was when taken down to make room for 
 the new mansion erected for Mr. Ward ; and which, as connected with 
 the history of this great statesman, may hereafter prove an object of 
 interest. 
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HOLWOOJD, KENT 
 
 Holwood House is fourteen miles distant from London, in the parish 
 of Keston, which parish, evidently either hy Latin or Saxon deri- 
 vation, takes its name from the camp commonly called Julius Caesar's 
 Camp, at Holwood Hill ; on the south entrenchment of which Mr. Ward's 
 house stands, and some part of the pleasure-ground is within the same. 
 The remains of this fortification are of an oblong form, commanding an 
 extensive view on every side. It consisted of a circular double, and in 
 some places treble entrenchment, enclosing about twenty-nine acres of 
 land ; into which there appeared to have been no original entrance but 
 by the opening to the north-west, which descends to the spring called 
 Ceesar's spring. Some have imagined this was the camp Julius 
 Caesar made when the Britons gave him the last battle ; others have 
 supposed this to have been the remains of the first Roman station from 
 London towards Dover. A third conjecture is, that it was the place 
 where Aulus Plautius the prsetor, after his fourth action with the Bri- 
 tons, encamped with his forces, whilst he awaited the arrival of the 
 emperor Claudius. But however antiquarians may differ as to the 
 person by whom this celebrated camp was formed, they all concur in 
 stating it to have been originally a strong and considerable Roman 
 station, though not of the larger sort ; but rather from its commanding 
 situation and short distance from the Thames, a camp of observation or 
 castra cestiva. To Mr. Kempe, who carefully investigated the anti- 
 quities of Holwood Hill, and favoured the public with the result of his 
 labours through the medium of the Military Register in 1814, we are 
 indebted for the few following remarks : 
 
 Ceesar's camp is situated on that side of Holwood Hill which forms a 
 sort of inclined plane in a northerly direction ; and the site commands 
 a fine view into the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, and Essex. 
 It was about a mile in circumference ; and partook in some degree of 
 the ordinary plan of Roman encampments, oblong with rounded corners. 
 The whole extent of the remains measured along the interior vallum 
 is about eight hundred paces. The western side is double-ditched ; 
 on the northern only one fosse is discernible. The inner trench is 
 about fifty-four feet in width, the outer forty-two ; the depth of the 
 inner trench may be about thirty feet, that of the outer considerably 
 less. The camp has two entrances ; one to the north, the other to the 
 west. It appears probable that the former was not original, but may 
 have been broken through in later days to form the high road which 
 formerly passed through the centre of the camp. The western aperture 
 conducted the garrison down to the source of the river Ravensbourn. 
 South of the spring there runs out for six or seven hundred yards in a 
 westerly direction from the camp, an elevated ridge, ditched on the 
 southern side. This ridge might have been a sort of military way, or 
 perhaps was intended as an outwork for the protection of the watering- 
 place. 
 
HOLWOOD, KENT. 
 
 Mr. Kempe, in conclusion, suggests the idea that what is generally 
 known by the name of Keston Camp, was primarily a British towni, 
 and the following extract from Caesar's Commentaries, tends in a great 
 measure to confirm his opinion : — 
 
 " Oppidum autem Britanni vocant quum sylvas impeditas vallo atque fossa munig- 
 runt, quo incursionis hostium vitandse causa convenire consueverunt. E6 proficiscitur 
 cum legionibus locum reperit egregie naturd, atque opere munitum. Tamen hunc 
 duabus ex partibus oppugnare contendit. Hostes paulisper morati militum nostrorum 
 impetum non tulerunt, seseque ex alia parte oppidi ejecerunt. Magnus ibi numerus 
 pecoris repertus." — Ccesar, lib. v. cap. 7. 
 
 It may be that the fortifications were originally British, and that the 
 Romans upon their arrival, finding the situation commodious, occupied 
 it as a permanent station. The outlines do not conform to the known 
 character of Roman castrametation, yet there can be no doubt of its 
 having been one of their strongholds. A variety of articles have from 
 time to time been dug up, which, although of great antiquity, do not 
 afford any precise date of Roman occupation. 
 
iLeesf Court, Hent; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS RICHARD WATSON, 
 
 LORD SONDES. 
 
 The Manor of Lees Court, otherwise Sheldwich, is in the Hundred of 
 Faversham. In the reign of Edward I., it was in the possession of a 
 family surnamed Atte-Lese. In the forty-first year of Edward III., 
 Sir Richard Atte-Lese was Sheriff for the County, and also sat in par- 
 liament as Knight of the Shire. Upon his death in 1394, without issue, 
 the Manor was devised to his wife for her life, with remainder to the 
 heirs male of Lucy, his niece, the wife of John Norton, Esq. 
 
 In consequence of this disposal, William Norton, the son of the above- 
 mentioned John and Lucy Norton, came into the possession of Lees 
 Court, retaining' also a mansion in the town of Faversham. At this 
 latter residence he died, in the 9th year of Edward IV., leaving 1 issue 
 two sons, the elder of whom, named Reginald, inherited this manor, 
 and transmitted it to his eldest son and heir named John. A descendant 
 of this John Norton, about the reign of King James I., alienated this 
 Manor to Sir Richard Sondes of Throwley, Knt. ; and he himself re- 
 moved to Milton, which had come into the possession of the Norton 
 family, by the marriage of John Norton above-named, with the heiress 
 of John Northwood, Esq. 
 
 Sir George Sondes, Knight of the Bath, the second of the name who 
 held this Manor, pulled down the old mansion of Lees Court, and upon 
 its site erected the stately edifice, an exact sketch of which is given in 
 the annexed Plate. The front is built after a design by Inigo Jones, 
 and is adorned with fourteen Grecian Ionic pilasters which divide the 
 windows. Above the ground-floor the building is raised one story, and 
 covered with a cottage roof supported by brackets. 
 
 Sir George Sondes was a man of large property and influence in this 
 county. In the 13th year of King Charles I., being at the time high 
 sheriff, it became part of his duty to enforce the claim of the crown in 
 levying ship-money, as it was called. This arduous task he performed 
 with so much justice and moderation, that, notwithstanding the oppo- 
 sition generally made to the measure, he secured the esteem of the 
 country gentlemen. During the troubles that ensued in the latter part 
 of the reign of Charles I., Sir George was a steady adherent to the royal 
 cause, and in consequence thereof he suffered much persecution during 
 
LEES COURT, KENT. 
 
 the interregnum, both as regarded his person and his property. A 
 curious document is still in existence, drawn up by himself, wherein is 
 contained an exact account of the live stock on his estates before they 
 were sequestered by order of the parliament. After undergoing long 
 imprisonment, he was at last suffered to compound for his property in 
 the sum of 3500/. 
 
 To recompense in some degree his exemplary loyalty, King Charles II. 
 upon his restoration was pleased by letters patent to create Sir George 
 Sondes a peer, by the title of Earl Faversham, Viscount Sondes of Lees 
 Court, and Baron of Throwley, for his life, with remainder to his son-in- 
 law, Lewis Lord Duras, and his heirs male. He died in the year 1677, 
 at his seat of Lees Court, and was buried in the family vault of Throwley 
 Court. 
 
 Lord Duras, who succeeded by limitation of the patent to the title of 
 Earl of Faversham, was a native of France, but had been naturalized by 
 an act of parliament in 1664. Upon the accession of King James II., he 
 was elected Knight of the Garter, and shortly after made General of the 
 King's forces, in which capacity he acted in the famous battle of Sedg- 
 moor. This nobleman died in April, 1709, and as he left no issue by his 
 marriage with Mary, the eldest daughter of the first Earl of Faversham, 
 this manor became the property of Lewis Lord Rockingham, son of 
 Catherine, the second daughter, by her marriage with Lord Rockingham. 
 This nobleman was by King George I. advanced to the titles of Earl of 
 Rockingham, Viscount Sondes of Lees Court, and Baron of Throwley, 
 to him and to his heirs male. He died in March, 1724, and was suc- 
 ceeded in the possession of his estates by his grandson, the second Earl 
 of Rockingham. As this last nobleman left no issue, the Manor of 
 Lees Court descended to his only brother Thomas, who died soon after 
 unmarried. The title of Earl of Rockingham, &c, thus became extinct, 
 but the barony descended to his kinsman, Thomas Watson Wentworth, 
 Earl of Malton, afterwards created Marquess of Rockingham. 
 
 Earl Thomas devised this Manor with his other estates to his first 
 cousin Lewis Monson, second son of John Lord Monson, by Mar- 
 garet, youngest daughter of Lewis, first Earl of Rockingham, enjoining 
 him to take the surname and use the arms of Watson. This gentleman 
 was subsequently created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of Lord 
 Sondes, Baron of Lees Court, to him and his heirs male. Upon his death 
 he was succeeded by his son Lewis Thomas, second Lord, born in April, 
 1754, who married, in 1784, a daughter of Richard Milles, Esq. of North 
 Elmham, in the county of Norfolk, by whom he had four sons and two 
 daughters : the eldest son, Lewis Richard, is the present Lord Sondes ; 
 who was born in May, 1792, and succeeded his father in June, 1806. 
 
 Motto : Esio quod esse videris. 
 
^ensfimrst Pace, &mt; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR JOHN SHELLEY-SIDNEY, BART. 
 
 Penshurst, so called, according- to Hasted, from Pen, an old British 
 word, signifying the top of any thing ; and hyrst a Wood, was at the 
 time of the conquest the residence of a family that took their name 
 from it. 
 
 Sir Stephen de Peneshurste possessed the Manor in the reign of 
 Edward I. ; and he dying without issue male, it successively became 
 the property of the several distinguished families of Columbers, de 
 Pulteney, and Devereux. The Mansion-house at Penshurst was 
 embattled and fortified by royal licence granted to Sir John Devereux, 
 in the reign of Richard II. Shortly after, the Manor was conveyed by 
 sale to John, Duke of Bedford, third son of King Henry IV., who 
 died without issue. His brother, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, sur- 
 named the Good, succeeded him ; but he also dying without issue, 
 Penshurst came into the hands of the Crown, King Henry VI. being 
 the next heir. 
 
 This monarch made a grant of the Manor to his kinsman, Humphrey 
 de Stafford, afterwards Duke of Buckingham, who fell valiantly fight- 
 ing for the royal cause in the battle of Northampton. To him suc- 
 ceeded Henry, his grandson, who rendered himself famous as chief 
 promoter of the elevation of Richard HI. to the throne ; but who was 
 afterwards beheaded by that monarch. Edward, his eldest son, heir to 
 his titles and estates, was not more fortunate : for being accused in the 
 reign of Henry VIII. of conspiring the King's death, an Act passed for 
 his attainder, so that this Manor, together with his other possessions, 
 became forfeited to the Crown. King Edward VI., in the fourth year 
 of his reign, granted Penshurst to Sir Ralph Fane, to be held in capite 
 by Knight's service. But Sir Ralph having espoused the cause of the 
 Duke of Somerset, was accused of being an accomplice with him, and 
 being found guilty, was executed on Tower-hill. Thus the estate falling 
 again into the hands of the Crown, it was by letters patent granted to 
 Sir William Sidney and his heirs, with which noble family-name Pens- 
 hurst has ever since been connected. 
 
 The Mansion, a general view of which is shewn in Plate I., stands at 
 the south-east corner of the Park. It is a large irregular building, 
 containing numerous apartments, some of which are handsome and 
 spacious. The architecture of different ages is to be traced in separate 
 parts of the edifice, to which additions have from time to time been 
 l 
 
PENSHURST PLACE, KENT. 
 
 made by its various possessors ; and, in later yeai'S, not quite in a style 
 corresponding with its former magnificence. A line of building in the 
 north front, adjoining the tower erected by Sir Henry Sidney, was 
 taken down some years ago. It was a range of domestic offices which 
 had fallen into great decay. A view of the entire Mansion, as it stood 
 in the beginning of the last century, is to be seen in Harris's History 
 of Kent. The present owner of Penshurst has expended a large sum 
 upon this venerable family residence, and displayed good taste and 
 judgment in the works of which he has directed the execution. 
 
 The principal entrance is through an ancient gateway, over which is 
 the following inscription : 
 
 The most religiovs and renowned 
 Prince, Edward the Sixt, Kinge of 
 England, France, and Irelande, gave 
 this House of Pencester, with the mannors, 
 landes, and appvrtenaynces ther 
 vnto helonginge vnto his trvstye 
 and welbeloved servant Syr 
 William Sydney, Knight Banneret. 
 
 Upon entering the first quadrangle, the Hall, a striking object of 
 architectural beauty, and the principal feature of the Mansion, engages 
 the attention. (See Plate II.) At the upper end of the Hall, a stair- 
 case on the left leads to the State-Apartments and Gallery ; at the 
 opposite corner is the passage to the Chapel. The Hall is a noble 
 room with a fine timber roof, and was, until within a few years, sur- 
 mounted by a cupola. This having been taken down, it is the inten- 
 tion of the present possessor to erect a lantern in its place, similar to 
 that on Westminster-Hall. The walls of the interior were formerly 
 adorned with lances and the various accoutrements of war, which 
 gave to the spacious apartment a pleasing effect, by recalling to the 
 mind of the visitor the days of olden time. The subject of Plate III. 
 is the inner quadrangle. Here are found the Kitchen, Buttery, and 
 other domestic offices. The old family dinner-bell, placed in a wooden 
 frame in the centre of the yard, serves as a memorial of baronial 
 festivity. There are in the Mansion a few excellent Portraits of the 
 Sidney family, besides some other valuable paintings, but unfortunately 
 from want of due care, the injurious effects of damp walls are visible 
 upon several of them. In the reign of George II., William Perry, of 
 Turville Park, in the county of Bucks, Esq., who married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Colonel Thomas Sidney, added to the collection of pictures 
 some very fine specimens of the Italian School ; he also beautified 
 several of the apartments. 
 
 The Park in which this noble building stands, contains at present no 
 more than 400 acres, diversified with hills, woods, and lawns, and well 
 planted with large oak, beech and chesnut trees. In 1738, before the 
 division of the Sidney property, the grounds contained 1057 acres, 2 
 
PENSHURST PLACE, KENT. 
 
 roods, and 20 perches. The Gardens, which are extensive, retain their 
 original form of Terraces. In giving a description of Penshurst-Place, 
 the Heronry, a curious relic of its ancient splendour, ought not to be 
 overlooked, more particularly as it is the only one remaining in this 
 part of the country. The place chosen for its situation is in some lofty 
 beech trees planted on a hilly part of the estate. The south side of the 
 Park is watered by the river Medway. 
 
 A tree is still pointed out, said to be the celebrated oak, called 
 Bear's Oak, which was planted at Sir Philip Sidney's birth. It mea^ 
 sures upwards of 27 feet in circumference, and is thus celebrated by 
 Waller, in a poem entitled, " At Penshurst — 
 
 " Go boy, and carve this passion on the bark 
 " Of yonder tree, which stands the sacred mark 
 " Of noble Sidney's birlh ; when such benign, 
 " Such more than mortal-making stars did shine ; 
 " That there they cannot but for ever prove 
 " The monument and pledge of humble love." 
 
 And it is thus noticed by Ben Jonson in his " Forest :" — 
 
 «« That taller tree which of a nut was set 
 
 ** At his great birth where all the Muses met." 
 
 Sir William Sidney, to whom, as has been already stated, Penshurst 
 was granted by King Edward VI., had acquired great reputation as a 
 soldier; and for his bravery at the famous battle of Flodden-field was 
 made a Knight Banneret. He died in the seventh year of Edward VI., 
 and was buried at Penshurst, leaving Sir Henry Sidney his son and 
 heir. His daughter Frances, Countess of Sussex, was foundress of 
 Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge. Sir Henry Sidney was highly es- 
 teemed by King Edward, with whom he had been brought up as a com- 
 panion, and from whom he received the honour of Knighthood, and many 
 other marks of distinction. He was father of the celebrated Sir Philip 
 Sidney, whose career was short but glorious ; and of Mary the accom- 
 plished Countess of Pembroke. Sir Philip, as his father's eldest son, 
 became possessed of Penshurst, but dying without issue male, Sir Ro- 
 bert, his next brother, succeeded to the Estate. On the accession of 
 King James, Sir Robert was advanced to the dignity of a Baron, by 
 the title of Lord Sidney of Penshurst, in the county of Kent ; and after- 
 wards by the same monarch he was created Viscount Lisle and Earl of 
 Leicester. His only son and successor, Sir Robert Sidney, married 
 Dorothy, eldest daughter of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumber- 
 land ; and had issue by her six sons and nine daughters. Of the sons 
 who survived to maturity, Philip was his successor. That zealous re- 
 publican, Algernon Sidney, beheaded on Tower Hill, anno 1683, for 
 being concerned in the Rye-House Plot, was another son. One of the 
 daughters was the beautiful Lady Dorothy Sidney, Waller's Sacharissa. 
 
PENSHURST PLACE, KENT. 
 
 Philip, Earl of Leicester, lived in great honour and esteem to a good 
 old age. He died in 1697, and was succeeded by his son Robert. This 
 nobleman had a numerous offspring, and three of his sons afterwards 
 took possession of the titles and estates. Joceline, the fourth surviving 
 son of Robert, was the last heir male of the family, in whom the title of 
 Earl of Leicester expired. 
 
 Upon his death, which happened in 1743, a dispute arose concerning 
 his disposal of the Sidney property to Anne his natural daughter. After 
 much litigation a compromise took place, by which it was agreed that 
 Sir Brownlow Sherard and Mary his wife, and William Perry, Esq., 
 and Elizabeth his wife (which Mary and Elizabeth were daughters and 
 coheiresses of Col. Thomas Sidney, third surviving son of Robert Earl 
 of Leicester) should enjoy all the Manors and Estates in Kent, free 
 from any demand from Anne Sidney, a suitable provision being made 
 for her use. 
 
 Sir Brownlow and Lady Sherard dying without issue, the latter 
 bequeathed her interest in these Estates to Anne, widow of Sir William 
 Yonge, Bart., with remainder to her son, Sir George Yonge, of Escot, 
 in the county of Derby, Bart., and his heirs for ever. They in 1770 
 joined in the sale of them to Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, and to Richard 
 Alnutt, Esq., of London. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Perry had one only child, who left issue, Elizabeth 
 Jane, the wife of Sir Bysse Shelley, of the county of Sussex, Bart., 
 and she devised her manors and estates in Kent to trustees, for the be- 
 nefit of her eldest grandson, Sir John Shelley-Sidney, who was created 
 a Baronet in 1818. 
 
 The Parish of Penshurst is situated in that district of the county of 
 Kent called the Weald. The Village has nothing remarkable in it. 
 The River Eden takes its course through the western part of the Parish, 
 and about the centre of it joins the River Medway, which afterwards 
 flows towards Tunbridge. This part of Kent abounds in chalybeate 
 springs. 
 
 The living is in the diocese of Rochester, and being a peculiar of the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, is as such within the deanery of Shoreham. 
 The Church, a large handsome structure, stands near the south-west 
 corner of Penshurst Place. The advowson belongs to the Sidney family, 
 and was granted unto them by Queen Elizabeth. — The present incum- 
 bent is the Rev. P. S. Dodd, formerly Fellow of Magdalen College, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Sir John Shelley-Sidney, Bart., married in 1799, Henrietta^Frances, 
 daughter of Sir Henry Henloke, Bart., by whom, who died in February, 
 1811, he has issue. 
 
 Arms. — Quarterly, 1st and 4th Sidney, or, aphceon azure; 2nd and 
 3rd Shelley, sable, a chevron engrailed, between three welk shells, or. 
 4 
 
g otes Court, Hent; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HONORABLE ADMIRAL GEORGE BYNG, 
 
 VISCOUNT TORRINGTON, 
 
 D. C.L., F. R.S. &C. 
 
 This estate, as early as the reign of Henry V11L, became the property 
 of Sir Edward Walsingham, of Scadbury, whose great Grandson, Sir 
 Thomas Walsingham, married the Widow of Nathaniel Master, Esq. ; 
 brother of Sir Edward Master, of East Langdon, and conveyed this 
 and other estates to his son-in-law, James Master, Esq., who pulled 
 down the old house and erected the present Mansion, in 1659, for his re- 
 sidence. It consists of two stories surmounted by a high roof, with 
 dormer windows, and is built of brick, with stone quoins and dressings : 
 a small Corinthian porch opens to a Hall fifty-eight feet long by nineteen 
 feet wide ; having on the right, a Dining-room, and on the left of the en- 
 trance, a Drawing-room. The whole of the grounds comprise about 
 one thousand acres, of which the house, garden, and shrubberies, im- 
 mediately adjoining, occupy six acres; the water in the park, from 
 whence all the ponds in the neighbourhood are fed, extends over five or 
 six acres, and there are about three hundred acres of cover. From the 
 principal entrance to Yotes Court, in the Mereworth Road to Forge 
 Gate, is a beautiful drive of nearly a mile. 
 
 James Master, Esq., who built this Mansion, died here 10th August, 
 1689, and was buried in Mereworth church. He left two sons, who 
 succeeded him in his estate, and a daughter who married George, 
 first Viscount Torrington. James, the eldest son, died in 1728, and 
 Richard in 1767; leaving William Daniel, Esq., son of his eldest sister, 
 his heir, who then took the name and arms of Master, in addition to his 
 own. William Daniel Master, Esq., of Yotes Court, was Sheriff of this 
 County in 1771, and died without issue. 
 
 The Mansion and estate, being entailed on heirs general, descended to 
 the present Viscount Torrington, in 1813, as the great grandson of 
 Martha, youngest daughter of James Master, Esq. 
 
 The noble family of Byng, were originally seated at Wrotham, in this 
 county, of which Robert Byng, Esq., M. P. for Abingdon, in the first 
 Parliament of Queen Elizabeth, and High Sheriff of the County in 1591, 
 was the direct ancestor of Viscount Torrington. 
 
 Admiral George Byng greatly distinguished himself in the battle off 
 Malaga, and was knighted 22d Oct. 1704, by Queen Anne. In 1718 he 
 was appointed Commander-in-Chief, in the Mediterranean, where he 
 performed many important public services, after which he attended King 
 George I. to Hanover, in 1720 ; and on the 9th Sept. he was created 
 Viscount Torrington, in the county of Devon, and Lord Byng, of Southill, 
 in Bedfordshire : he had been made a Baronet on the 15th Nov. 1715. 
 
 In 1727, King George II. placed his Lordship at the head of his naval 
 
YOTES COURT, KENT. 
 
 affairs, by appointing him First Lord of the Admiralty; in which high 
 station he died on the 17th Jan. 1733, aged 69, and was buried at Southill. 
 
 Pattee, the eldest son, became second Viscount Torrington, and, dying 
 in 1747, without surviving issue, was succeeded by his brother George as 
 third Viscount, who died in 1750; when he was succeeded by his 
 eldest son George, fourth Viscount Torrington, who died in Dec. 1812, 
 and was succeeded by his brother John, fifth Viscount, who died on the 
 8th Jan. 1813, aged 69, leaving his eldest son George the present and 
 sixth Viscount Torrington, &c. &c, Vice Admiral of the Blue, 
 lift of Picture* at pote* Court. 1827. 
 
 DINING ROOM. 
 
 Two Landscape Paintings— Paul Sandby. 
 A Portrait of Captain Strensham, Master- 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 A Ditto of Sir Edward Master, of East 
 
 Langdon, Kent— Van dyke 
 A Portrait of Dr. Salmon— Vandyke. 
 
 GREAT HALL. 
 A Scripture Painting of Abraham and Ha 
 
 gar — Uncertain. 
 A Ditto of Susannah and the Elder— Ditto 
 Four Paintings, Spanish Boys— Murillo. 
 A Portrait of Admiral John Byng— Sir 
 
 Godfrey Kneller. 
 A Ditto of Colonel Robert Byng— Ditto. 
 A Ditto of Sir George Byng, afterwards 
 
 the first Viscount Torrington — Ditto. 
 A Portrait of Doddington, the Countess 
 
 of Manchester— Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 A double Portrait of the Honourable Ed- 
 ward and Mary Byng— Ditto. 
 A Ditto of Margaret Lady Byng, and 
 Sarah her Daughter, afterwards Lady 
 Osborne — Ditto. 
 A Portrait of George, the third Viscount 
 
 Torrington — Ditto. 
 A Ditto of Colonel Robert Byng, gover- 
 nor of Dover Castle — Uncertain. 
 A Ditto of the Honourable Captain Ro- 
 bert. Byng, Son of the first Viscount Tor- 
 rington— Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 A Ditto of James Master, D. C. L., East 
 
 Langdon, Kent, 1702. 
 A Ditto of Sir Philip Warwick, 1664.— 
 
 Remarkably fine painting. Uncertain. 
 A Ditto of a Lady — Uncertain. 
 A Ditto of George, sixth Viscount Torring- 
 ton, in his Robes, and Admiral's Uni- 
 forms, 1817— Watson, Jun., Edinburgh. 
 A Ditto of John Langmead — Medley. 
 
 OUTER DRAWING ROOM. 
 A double Portrait of George, first Vis- 
 count Torrington, and the Viscountess — 
 Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 A Portrait of the sixth and present Vis- 
 count Torrington, 1826— Drummond. 
 A Ditto of John Byng, brother to the 
 
 sixth Viscount Torrington — Chinerry. 
 A Ditto of Admiral Sir Robert Barlow, 
 K.C.B.Father of Viscountess Torrington, 
 1817. — Watson, Jun., of Edinburgh. 
 
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 INNER DRAWING ROOM. 
 A Portrait of Lady Torrington —Sir 
 
 Godfrey Kneller. 
 A Ditto of Sir Thomas Walsingham. 
 Ditto of Lady Walsingham. 
 Ditto of Lionel Daniel. 
 Ditto of James Master. 
 Ditto of his Wife. 
 Ditto of Mrs. Columbine. 
 Ditto of Sir Francis Walsingham. 
 Ditto of Sir Edward Master. 
 UPPER DRAWING ROOM. 
 Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Byng, 
 afterwards the third Viscount Tor- 
 rington, 1721— Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 
 TOP OF BEST STAIRS, 
 full length Portrait of George, the 
 first Viscount Torrington, in his Robes 
 — Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 half ditto of Ditto— Uncertain. 
 
 BEST BED ROOM. 
 Portrait of Dr. Salmon. 
 Ditto of Commodore Forrest. 
 Portrait of Miss Salmon. 
 Two Chinese Ladies. 
 
 LITTLE BLUE ROOM. 
 A Chinese family Painting. 
 A Portrait of Miss Columbine. 
 
 BOUDOIR. 
 A fine collection of Chinese Portraits, &c. 
 A Portrait of the Honourable Miss Byng 
 — Medley. 
 
 LADY'S BED ROOM. 
 A fine Scripture Painting — Uncertain. 
 OFFICE. 
 
 A Portrait of Anne, Countess of Suffolk, 
 Daughter of Robert, Earl of Manches- 
 ter, 1721. 
 
 A Ditto of the Earl of Suffolk, 1724. 
 
 A Ditto of Anne, Countess of Manches- 
 ter, Daughter of Sir Chris. Yelverton. 
 
 A Ditto of Lady 
 
 A Ditto of 
 
 A Storm. 
 
 Several Scriptural Paintings. 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 A View of Yotes Court South Lodge. — 
 
 Hams on. 
 Two drawings in Water Colours. 
 Views and Prints. 
 
tattijtsft f|all, iUttcaslnte ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 CHARLES STANDISH, ESQ. 
 
 Standish Hall is an irregular brick building, of which the part 
 selected for the subject of the annexed engraving comprehends the 
 most interesting features, shewing the principal front, the domestic offi- 
 ces, and the private chapel, which was an invariable appendage to the 
 mansions of ancient date. The interior of the house is divided into many 
 commodious apartments. The situation of Standish Hall is about six 
 miles south of Chorley, and three from Wigan, in a township of the same 
 name ; the Lancashire Canal winds its course along one side of the 
 estate. 
 
 The ancient and respectable family of Standish have been located 
 at this spot from a period soon after the Conquest ; and several members 
 of it have at different times taken a conspicuous part in passing events. 
 Lingard, one of the most eminent of our modern historians, upon the 
 authority of Holinshed, records a valorous deed performed by John 
 Standish, in the reign of Richard II. It appears that John Standish 
 was an attendant upon the youthful monarch at his interview with Wat 
 Tyler in Smithfield, and was the individual who inflicted the mortal 
 wound upon the person of the demagogue after he had been stunned 
 by William Walworth, Mayor of London. Upon the disposition of 
 rewards " made upon this occasion, John Standish was honoured with 
 the order of Knighthood. At a subsequent period, Sir Ralph Stan- 
 dish, belonging to this family, commanded an army in France, in 
 the reign of Henry V. ; also during the Protectorate of John, Duke 
 of Bedford, and rendered important services to his country. A 
 relation of this Sir Ralph Standish was knighted for his valiant 
 behaviour at the battle of Hopton-field in Scotland, in 1482. Other 
 members of this ancient family have distinguished themselves in a 
 civil capacity. Henry Standish, Bishop of St. Asaph, went out in 
 company with Sir John Baker, upon an especial embassy to Denmark, 
 in 1526 ; and was also one of the committee of bishops who assisted 
 Catherine of Arragon, the first Queen of Henry VIII., in her suit 
 concerning the divorce. 
 
STANDISH HALL, LANCASHIRE. 
 
 This estate passed by the marriage of Cecilia, heiress of Ralph 
 Stan dish, Esq., to William Townley, Esq., of Townley-hall. Two sons 
 and a daughter were the issue of this alliance. The sons, Charles and 
 Edward, died without children, and in consequence the property went 
 to the issue of the daughter, Cecilia, who had married Charles 
 Strickland, Esq., of Sizergh Castle, in the County of Westmoreland. 
 Their son, Thomas Strickland, of Sizergh, took the name of Standish, 
 and possessed the two estates jointly ; but upon his death the Standish 
 property was inherited by his eldest son, Charles Standish, Esq., the 
 present owner ; and Sizergh Castle, by Thomas Strickland, Esq., the 
 second son. 
 
 The Parish Church of Standish is a handsome structure, the steeple 
 of which was erected in 1584, by Richard Moodie, the first Protestant 
 rector. There is a statue of this pious divine, habited as a Franciscan 
 friar, to which order he belonged before his conversion to the Protestant 
 faith, with an inscription declarative of his munificence in repairing 
 the church. It contains several monuments of the family of the Lords 
 of the Manor, in whose gift is the living, which is very valuable. The 
 township of Standish with Langtree contains about 400 houses, and 
 3000 inhabitants. 
 
 Dr. Leigh, in his researches into the antiquities and curiosities of 
 this county palatine, has described a small signet which was found 
 near Standish, in a copper urceolus ; and here have also been dis- 
 covered several Roman coins and two gold rings of Roman knights. 
 
 *** Our View of this place was taken from a sketch kindly 
 forwarded by Captain Edward Jones. 
 
THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 
 
 LORD HOLLAND. 
 
 and House, in the Parish of Kensington, takes its name from 
 Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, one of the most famous characters of 
 the distracted reign of Charles I. The house, as it now stands, was 
 built by that Nobleman's father-in-law, Sir Walter Cope, about 
 the year 1607, and designated as the Manor-house of Abbots' Ken- 
 sington. The appearance of the Mansion, as exhibited in the 
 accompanying Plate, is that of a brick Edifice, with dressings and 
 embellishments of stone. In the central compartment of the prin- 
 cipal front rises a turret, three stories high, admitting a porch in 
 the lower part ; there is also, at each end of the same compartment, 
 a plain square turret. A projecting arcade extends along the 
 face of the structure, having for its termination an open parapet of 
 stone, forming fleurs-de-lis. There are two detached stone piers at 
 the entrance of the court, designed by Inigo Jones, and executed by- 
 Nicholas Stone : in niches are the arms of Rich, quartering Bouldry, 
 and impaling Cope. The original Court is bounded by a stone palisade. 
 A few years ago, the western end, which had sunk into a state of 
 dangerous decay, was repaired with great attention to the general cha- 
 racter of the edifice. The internal decorations were by Francis Cleyne : 
 and a very favourable idea of the artist's abilities may be formed by 
 an inspection of the Gilt Room, which remains nearly in its original state. 
 The ceiling was in a grotesque pattern, but fell in more than forty 
 years ago : the wainscot is in compartments, ornamented with crosslets 
 and fleurs-de-lis; charges in the arms of Rich and Cope, whose 
 shields are introduced entire, at the corners of the Room. There are 
 some emblematical figures over the chimneys, which, according to the 
 opinion of Lord Orford, in style and workmanship are not unworthy 
 of Parmegiano. In the same Gilt Room are some well executed busts, 
 the greater number by Nollekens; among others those of Henry, 
 first Lord Holland, William, Duke of Cumberland, and Francis, Duke 
 of Bedford ; Don Gaspar Jovellanos, the Emperor Napoleon, Ariosto, 
 Henry the IV, of France, His Majesty George IV., and Charles James 
 Fox. The original mould of the statue of the last named Statesman, 
 executed by Mr. Westmacott, and erected in Bloomsbury Square, stands 
 in the Entrance Hall. The Pictures include portraits of the Lennox, 
 Digby, and Fox families ; among which are those of Sir Stephen Fox, 
 by Sir Peter Lely ; Henry, Lord Holland, and the Right Hon. C. J. 
 Fox, when a boy, in a groupe with Lady Susan Strangways, and Lady 
 Mary Lennox, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, appears to have been a nobleman of a 
 restless and wavering disposition. He was frequently in employments 
 of considerable trust. Upon the commencement of the troubles in the 
 seventeenth century, he was employed against the Scots ; but not long 
 
HOLLAND HOUSE, MIDDLESEX. 
 
 after, considering himself injured by the administration of Lord 
 Strafford, he attached himself to the enemies of that unfortunate noble- 
 man. Finally, however, pitying the distressed state of the persecuted 
 King, he resolved to strike a vigorous blow in his favour. It came 
 too late; the King's affairs had grown desperate. At Kingston-upon- 
 Thames he was defeated by a superior force, and obliged to quit the 
 field. The Earl was soon afterwards taken prisoner, and suffered death 
 upon the scaffold, by a sentence of the High Court of Justice. 
 
 The celebrated Addison became possessed of Holland House in 1716, 
 by intermarrying with Charlotte, Countess Dowager of Warwick and 
 Holland. The room in which he is said to have breathed his last, is 
 situated at the western extremity of the central division of the building. 
 About the year 1746, the Mansion was leased to the Right Hon. 
 Henry Fox, Secretary at War, afterwards created Baron Holland, who 
 made it his principal country residence, and purchased it in virtue of an 
 Act of Parliament about 1765 or 1766. A gallery which occupies 
 the whole length of the western wing, about 110 feet, was fitted up by 
 this nobleman, as a Picture Gallery, and contained a good collection of 
 family portraits. These have been lately removed, and the gallery 
 converted into a Library, largely furnished with books, selected by the 
 present noble owner. The space between the book-cases and the ceiling 
 is still occupied by portraits chiefly of distinguished living characters. 
 
 There are more than 200 acres of land attached to Holland House, 
 of which seven or eight are Pleasure-ground. 
 
 Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Baron Holland of Holland, in the County 
 of Lincoln, Baron Holland of Foxley, in the County of Wilts, was 
 born in November, 1773, and succeeded his father, Stephen, late Lord, 
 in December, 1774. In July, 1797, his Lordship married Elizabeth 
 Vassall, daughter of Richard Vassall, Esq., of the Island of Jamaica. 
 His Lordship has had issue : 1. Stephen, born in January, 1799, and 
 died in November, 1800. 2. Henry Edward, born in March, 1802. 
 
 3. Mary Elizabeth, born in February, 1806 ; and 4. Georgiana, born 
 in November, 1809. 
 
 Henry Fox, first Lord Holland, was younger brother of Stephen 
 Fox, first Earl of Ilchester, and second and youngest son by the 
 second marriage of Sir Stephen Fox, Knight. This nobleman married 
 in May, 1744, Georgiana Carolina, eldest daughter of Charles, second 
 Duke of Richmond, by whom he had four sons : 1. Stephen, his suc- 
 cessor. 2. Henry, who died when an infant. 3. The late celebrated 
 Charles James Fox, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. 
 
 4. Henry Edward, who died 1810, a General in the army. Henry, first 
 Lord Holland, died in July, 1774, and was succeeded by his son Stephen, 
 second Lord, who married in April, 1766, Mary Fitzpatrick, daughter 
 of John, first Earl of Upper Ossory, by whom he had issue : 1. Caro- 
 line, born in November, 1767. 2. Mary, born in 1769 ; and 3. Ame- 
 lia, both of whom died young. 4. Henry Richard, present and third 
 Lord. 
 
 Motto ; Et vitam impendere vero t 
 
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Cretiegar House, jtomoutMrtt* ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR CHARLES GOULD MORGAN, BART., M.P. 
 
 The extensive domain of Tredegar, finely overspread with ancient 
 timber, is situated on the high road between Newport and Cardiff. It 
 has for generations been the seat of one of the most opulent families 
 in this part of the country, who likewise possess considerable landed 
 property in the Counties of Glamorgan and Brecon. Tredegar stands 
 in a flat part of the Park, and is a handsome red brick building, with 
 a spacious Court in front. It was erected in the reign of Charles II., 
 near the site of the old family stone Mansion, noticed by Leland, and 
 some of which is still remaining, converted into domestic offices. The 
 interior of the present Mansion-house is divided into many large and 
 commodious apartments, some of which are fitted up in an antique 
 style. One room, forty-two feet in length, and twenty-seven in 
 breadth, is called the Oak Room, from the circumstance of its being 
 floored with planks cut out of a single oak tree. Here is a good collec- 
 tion of family Portraits, besides other choice Paintings. A full length 
 figure of the late Sir John Maynard, Serjeant-at-law, and the intimate 
 friend of Sir Charles Gould, Bart., father of the present owner of this 
 Seat, is particularly worthy of admiration. 
 
 The grounds belonging to this fine Estate, are most tastefully laid 
 out, being diversified with variegated features, and covered with 
 umbrageous plantations of Oak, Beech, and Chesnut. At the entrance 
 from the turnpike road on the right, is a neat Lodge, from whence a 
 short drive leads through the midst of an extensive Lawn, to the 
 Mansion. The Edifice and grounds are seen to the best advantage 
 from a bold eminence on the left of the House, covered with a fine 
 Grove ; and at whose foot a considerable ornamental sheet of Water 
 extends to the high road. To the right of the Mansion are the stables, 
 built also of red brick, and at a short distance on the same side, are 
 the Pleasure Grounds. 
 
 The Pedigree of the Morgan family has been traced back to a very 
 remote period — in fact, to the time when the Romans held possession of 
 
TREDEGAR HOUSE, MONMOUTHSHIRE. 
 
 the island. They are said to be descendants of the celebrated Caradoe, 
 or Caractacus, who was carried prisoner to Rome, in the reign of 
 Claudius. The name is certainly of frequent mention in the poems of 
 the old bards. A very respectable branch of this ancient family, has 
 been long settled at Tredegar; and the County of Monmouth has been 
 almost constantly represented by one of the name for above a century. 
 
 The Right Honourable Sir Charles Gould, LL. D., was bred to the 
 law, and, in June, 1762, was appointed Judge- Advocate-General, and 
 Judge-Martial of the Forces. In April, 1779, he was knighted, and 
 created a Baronet in October, 1792 ; he married Jane, daughter of 
 Thomas Morgan, Esq., of Ruperra, in the County of Glamorgan, and 
 sole heiress of John Morgan, Esq., of Tredegar House. By this lady 
 he had two sons ; Sir Charles, the second and present Baronet, and 
 John, a Midshipman, killed in a naval engagement, while serving in 
 the Fleet, under the command of Lord Rodney. Sir Charles, in pur- 
 suance of the will of the late John Morgan, Esq., obtained the royal 
 licence for assuming the name and arms of Morgan. 
 
 Sir Charles Gould Morgan, Baronet, succeeded his father, Sir 
 Charles, in December, 1806, and has been the representative for the 
 county in four Parliaments. He married Mary Margaret, daughter 
 of George Stoney, Esq., and by her has issue four sons and three 
 daughters. 
 
 Arms :— Quarterly, 1st and 4th Morgan ; or, a griffin, segreant, 
 sable. 2d and 3d Gould i or, on a chevron, between three roses, 
 azure, as many thistles of the field. 
 
©rapton f^ouse, Jlotfhamntonsittte ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE MOST NOBLE CHARLES SACKVILLE GERMAIN, 
 
 DUKE OF DORSET, &c. 
 
 This very noble Mansion, which had been in early times the established 
 residence of the knightly families of Drayton and Greene, descended 
 through the heirs general of the latter to John, the First Lord Mordaunt, 
 of Turvey in Bedfordshire, he was succeeded by John, second Lord 
 Mordaunt, who contributed much to the magnificence of this his principal 
 residence; a great part having been constructed under his direction. 
 
 The North front of the Mansion represented in Plate I. is of con- 
 siderable extent, and retains, more than any other portion of the building, 
 the highly characteristic features of the Tudor style of domestic archi- 
 tecture. Upon one of the gables of the inner court is sculptured the date 
 of 1584. 
 
 The entire building is of stone, but it has undergone great alteration 
 in the style of its architecture, from the caprice of its subsequent pos- 
 sessors, chiefly about the time of Queen Anne, though it still ranks as 
 one of the finest houses in the County of Northampton. 
 
 The Mansion is built on a spacious plan, having the principal en- 
 trance on the West front, formed by very handsome gates of wrought 
 iron. The stone piers of the centre gate, sculptured with massive tro- 
 phies of Roman armour and weapons, are surmounted by eagles; the 
 heraldic symbol of the Mordaunts, being the supporters of the family 
 arms. Upon the piers of the side gates, are large vases crested with 
 the eagles ; this noble entrance opens to a large quadrangular Court, en- 
 closed by palisadoes, with a drive round a circular grass plat, in the 
 centre. The main building at the extremity of this court, is embattled 
 in the manner of our very early castellated architecture, with a rusticated 
 arch leading to another court, over which is a large shield of arms in 
 a panelled compartment. 
 
 The Inner Court is very rich in architectural embellishment ; the sides 
 are occupied by a Doric colonnade, completely masking the old line of 
 building, the entablature is crowned with balusters, and large shields of 
 arms appear in the centre of each side. The extremity presents a facade 
 of the Corinthian order, still more enriched, a view of which is given in 
 Plate II. The entrance, in the centre of this facade, is approached by a 
 flight of steps, and the entablature of the door-way is finished by a pe- 
 
DRAYTON HOUSE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
 
 dimented compartment containing a large shield of the arms of Germain, 
 bearing an inescutcheon of the arms of Mordaunt ; the whole crowned 
 by vases. The building contains three large windows of the hall, upon 
 each side the door-way, which are adorned by very boldly sculptured 
 dressings, and have their entablatures surmounted by well executed 
 busts on brackets: rusticated piers occupy the angles of the court, ever 
 which are seen rising the venerable embattled turrets of the original 
 Tudor Mansion. Two very large and conspicuous square towers of that 
 age are now terminated by cupolas and vanes. 
 
 In the Hall are some excellent whole length portraits, and a very good 
 collection of pictures adorn the principal rooms. Little innovation has 
 taken place in the gardens, which preserve the character of the reign of 
 Queen Anne, when they were originally formed : on the Wall of enclosure 
 are vases at intermediate distances. 
 
 Under the east window of the north aisle of Luffwick church is a 
 very sumptuous monument in memory of Mary, Lady Mordaunt, the 
 daughter and heiress of Henry, second Earl of Peterborough, K. G. • 
 she died 17 Nov. 1705: near this tomb is that of her husband, Sir John 
 Germain, Bart., who inherited from her this estate, and who died 11th 
 Dec. 1718. After the death of Lady Mordaunt, Sir John Germain 
 married secondly, Lady Betty, the daughter of Charles, second Earl of 
 Berkeley, who survived him many years, and was the Lady Betty Ger- 
 main, so distinguished for her wit and amiable disposition in the early 
 part of the last century. Many of her ladyship's letters are included in 
 the «« Suffolk Correspondence,"* lately published. " Her whole life" 
 says the editor of that work, " seems to have been an exercise of good 
 humour, generosity, and affection." Lady Betty had been a friend of 
 Swift almost from her childhood, and is celebrated in some of the gay 
 verses with which he amused the family of her father when Lord 
 Lieutenant of Ireland. At her decease in 1769, she bequeathed her 
 large fortune and estate with the name of Germain to Lord George 
 Sackville, youngest son of Lionel, Duke of Dorset. This Nobleman in 
 1782, was created Viscount Sackville of Drayton and Lord Bolebroke; 
 he married Diana, daughter and heiress of John Sambroke, Esq., of 
 Gobions, in Hertfordshire, the brother of Sir Jeremy Sambroke, Bart., 
 and on his death, 26 April, 1785, aged 70, was succeeded in his estates 
 fcc, by his eldest son Charles, now Duke of Dorset, Earl of Middle- 
 sex and Dorset, Viscount Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, Cranfield, and 
 Bolebroke, His Grace's principal titles devolved to him at the death 
 of George John Frederic, fourth Duke of Dorset, in 1815. 
 
 * Lady Suffolk married the honourable George Berkeley, the brother of Lady Betty 
 Germain. 
 
Hall Jlortfwmptottslnre * 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN BOOTH, ESQ. 
 
 Gl en don Hall is situated in Rothwell Hundred, about three miles 
 
 from the town of Kettering, and sixteen from Northampton. The 
 different proprietors of land, in the Lordship of Glendon, are enu- 
 merated in Bridges' History of Northamptonshire from the Conquest, 
 but it has not yet been included in the recent and admirable History ot 
 the County by Mr. George Baker. In the year 1527, the nineteenth of 
 the reign of Henry VIII., this estate was the property of William 
 Lane, Esq., in whose family it continued through various descendants 
 until 1758, when it was disposed of under the will of Mrs. Lane, the 
 great grandmother of the present Earl of Macclesfield, and was pur- 
 chased by John Booth, Esq., of Glatton Hall, in Huntingdonshire. 
 Upon his death, the estate descended to his son, Richard Booth, Esq., 
 who was High Sheriff of this County in 1793; at whose death, it 
 was left to his son, John Booth, Esq., the present owner, who also 
 served the office of High Sheriff for the County in 1818. He is now 
 Lord of the Manor, and possesses the whole of the land in the Lordship 
 of Glendon. 
 
 The immediate ancestor of this branch of the family of Booth, and 
 father of the first purchaser of Glendon Hall, was settled at Gildersome, 
 near Leeds, in Yorkshire, and was descended from a younger branch of 
 the Booths, of Dunham Massey, who were of great repute through a 
 succession of many generations in Lancashire and Cheshire long before 
 it arrived to the rank of Peerage, as Earls of Warrington and Lords 
 Delamere, which last title remained in the family till 1770, when it 
 became dormant. 
 
 Glendon Hall, of which the principal front is shewn in the annexed 
 View, [stands in a small Park, formerly of much larger extent, 
 the surface being very agreeably undulated: from the Park are 
 several pleasing views of the Mansion, which is constructed partly 
 of brick and partly of stone; the latter has the character of great 
 antiquity. That portion which is of brick was either added or rebuilt 
 by John Booth, Esq., soon after his purchase of the estate. It corn 
 tains several very good rooms of considerable dimensions, adorned 
 with pictures, some of which are by the best masters. In the more 
 ancient part of the House there is a Chapel and a Gallery. The Chapel, 
 it is supposed* was built by the Lane family for private devotion. This 
 
GLENDON HALL, NORTH AMPTONS 
 
 1 
 
 Mnv. 
 
 family had a lease of the tithes of Glendon fr 
 Monastery of Pipwell. At the dissolution, the tith 
 Crown, of whose grantees they were afterwards pur 1 
 family, and conveyed with their other property in Im 
 present impropriator's grandfather, and in whose posl 
 lately confirmed by a decree of the Court of Exchequer^TThe Gallery 
 contains several portraits of the Booth family and its connections, as 
 Sir Gillies Payne, Bart., Gentleman, of the families of Kingsman, 
 Holmes, Barron, Aynsworth, Salway, Doleman, &c, and of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Booth, by Edward Penny, R.A.; there are also in the Dining- 
 room portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Booth, the father and mother of the 
 above, by Vanderbank. 
 
 The very curious and valuable portrait of Catharine Parr, by Holbein, 
 used formerly to hang in the Gallery, as described by Bridges. She 
 was the sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII., and was daughter of Sir 
 Thomas Parr, and sister of William Marquess of Northampton; after 
 the death of the King, the Queen married Thomas Lord Seymour, of 
 Sudley, and died in childbed, September 5, 1548, at Sudley Castle, in 
 Gloucestershire, and was buried in the Chapel of the Castle. 
 
 a iUjst of t&e pctttwjs at ^tenuon tyall* 
 
 THE DINING ROOM. 
 
 Diana and Nymphs bathing ; the figures by 
 
 Gerard Lairesse — /. Glauber. 
 Jacob's Journey into Canaan — Castiglione. 
 Boys Catching Birds — N. Poussin. 
 The Pool of Bethesda — Tintoretto. 
 A View of the Gardens of Este, at Tivoli 
 
 — Ino. Paulo Pannini. 
 
 THE BREAKFAST ROOM. 
 
 A Magdalen — Trevisani. 
 An Old Man's Head, the eye very fine — 
 Vandyck. 
 
 Lucretia stahbing herself —Leonardo da 
 
 Vinci. 
 
 The Assumption— Romanelli. , 
 
 A Landscape, Morning scene. — Horizonti. 
 
 A Landscape, Evening scene, its com- 
 
 panion — Ditto. 
 A Pot of Flowers, in his highest style— 
 
 Mario da Fiori. 
 A Sleeping Venus — Luca Giordano. 
 Leda, its companion — Ditto. 
 A young man and womao dancing — 
 
 Wattrau. 
 The Ascension — Annibali Caracci. 
 Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ; the 
 
 figures by Rothenamer — Velvet Breughel 
 •Two Flower pieces — Filippo Lauri. 
 A Bacchanalian Festival, painted in chiaro 
 
 oscuro — Rubens. 
 A Boy painted on Slate. , • 
 
 The three Virgins weeping over the body 
 
 of Christ — Schedone. 
 A Boar Hunt, a sketch — Rubens. 
 
 THE DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 Cupid breaking his Bow, with the motto 
 
 " Pallada Eccepta" — Albani. 
 A full length Portrait of Henry Rich, 
 
 Earl of Holland — Vandyck. 
 A Landscape, an Evening scene — Lucatelli, 
 A Ditto, a Morning Ditto, its companion. 
 
 — Lucatelli. 
 Two Fruit pieces, circular frames — Michael 
 
 Angelo delta frutti. 
 Philip baptising the Eunuch— Old Franks. 
 The Holy Family, a small oval — Huins. 
 Two Sea pieces, in small oval frames— 
 
 Vandevelde. 
 Two Vegetable pieces, companions— Luca 
 
 Giordano. 
 
 The Virgin, St. Francis, and Christ, atten- 
 ded by Angels — Albano. 
 
 The Assumption of the Virgin, its com- 
 panion — Albano. 
 
 A full length Portrait of Catharine Parr, 
 Queen of Henry VIII. — Hotbein. 
 
 A full length Portrait of the Countess of 
 Pembroke — Vandyck. 
 
 Portrait of Sir Francis Drake— Frederico 
 Zucchero. 
 
 Jesus Christ and St. John, supposed by— 
 Albano. 
 
 Return from Hunting. — Wouvermans. 
 
Cotfoelstotw House, ^ontersetefrtre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OP 
 
 EDWARD JEFFRIES ESDAILE, ESQ. 
 
 This Mansion, erected a few years back by the present proprietor, 
 affords as correct and chaste a specimen of the Grecian Ionic architec- 
 ture as the nature of our domestic buildings will allow. The south 
 or principal front (see our View) has coupled pilasters supporting a 
 regular entablature throughout; the centre being broken by two 
 columns, which, with the capitals, mouldings, cornice, &c, are taken 
 from the temple of Minerva Polias, at Athens. 
 
 The house is built of white sandstone from a quarry recently disco- 
 vered on the estate. The ornaments of the interior are in character 
 with those already described. The staircase is in good taste, the light 
 to which from the roof is admitted by a circular horizontal window of 
 stained glass, in a frame of cast bronze, over which is a sky light. The 
 house is not large, being only 74 feet by 68. The offices are connected 
 by a back wing, concealed by plantations. 
 
 The situation of Cothelstone House yields to none in the county in 
 natural beauties and advantages. The vale of Taunton lies to the south, 
 backed by the Browndown and Blackdown Hills, from an opening in 
 which, Halsdown by Exeter, thirty miles distant, is visible. An ancient 
 round tower, called the lodge, and which is taken advantage of as a 
 land-mark by ships in the British channel, affords a very extensive 
 prospect, offering to the eye on a clear day, and with the aid of a good 
 glass, a sight of fourteen counties. From hence the line of the Quan- 
 tock Hills runs to the north-west, terminating at the ocean; they are 
 mostly covered with heath and whortleberry. The black cock is 
 found in considerable numbers, and the eagle has been occasionally 
 seen : a specimen of one lately killed is in the institution at Taunton. 
 
 Cothelstone House stands in the parish of Bishop's Lydiard within the 
 hundred of Kingsbury West, and is seven miles north-west from Taunton. 
 The noble family of Stawel, who derived their name from Stawel, 
 near Moorlinch, in the Hundred of Whitleigh, were settled for many 
 generations in the adjoining parish of Cothelstone, where their old 
 family mansion is in part standing, and used as a farm-house. Sir John 
 Stawel, Knight of the Bath, who lived in the reign of Charles I., is 
 famous in history for the zeal he displayed in the cause of his sovereign. 
 
COTHELSTONE HOUSE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 Having raised at his own expense a body of troops, to succour the royal 
 army, he, in consequence^ exposed himself to the malevolence of the 
 parliament, who sent him to Newgate, demolished his house at Gothel- 
 stone, where his family had resided from the Conquest, sold his estate 
 and cut down the woods. At the Restoration, he retired with the 
 wreck of his fortune, to his seat at Nether Ham, near Somerton, where 
 he died two years after, namely, in February 1662, and was buried 
 in the parish church of Cothelstone. Ralph his eldest son was, in 
 consideration of the faithful services and great persecutions which 
 his father had undergone, created a peer by the title of Lord Stawel, 
 Baron Stawel, of Somerton, in the county of Somerset by letters patent, 
 bearing date January, 1682. 
 
 Upon the death of Edward, fourth Lord Stawel, which took place in 
 April, 1755, as he left no male issue, the family estates descended to 
 Mary, his only daughter and heiress. To this daughter George II., in 
 the thirty-fourth year of his reign, granted the dignity of a Baroness of 
 Great Britain, by the title of Baroness Stawel, and the dignity of Baron 
 to her heirs male. Her first husband was the Right Honourable Henry 
 Bilson Legge, fourth son of William first Earl of Dartmouth, by whom 
 she had issue the Hon. Henry Stawel Legge, born, in 1757, who suc- 
 ceeded to the title upon his mother's death, in July, 1780. Lady 
 Stawel's second husband was the Right Hon. Wills Hill, Earl of Hills- 
 borough. Legge Lord Stawell died without heirs in 1820, and in 
 consequence the title became extinct. 
 
©tlttngtcitt f|ouse, Somersetshire ♦ 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN HANNING, ESQ. 
 
 DlL lington is one of the eight hamlets constituting the parish of 
 Ilminster. The village, though small, was formerly of some repute, as 
 containing a mineral spring, resorted to hy numbers of the credulous 
 for the cure of various disorders. At the present day the only object 
 worthy of notice which it contains, is the fine Mansion selected for the 
 subject of the accompanying Plate. Dillington House is situate about 
 a mile north-east of Ilminster, in a pleasant fertile vale, surrounded by 
 a Park, agreeably diversified as to its scenery. The Mansion, from its 
 appearance, was probably built in the reign of Elizabeth, or that of her 
 successor. It is a handsome gabled stone structure ; its form being 
 that of the letter E. In the centre of the principal front is an em- 
 battled porch, having on each side a large mullioned window of painted 
 glass, which give light to the hall, and other apartments. The rear of 
 the house is sheltered by a gradually rising bank, which also adds con- 
 siderably to the beauty of the situation. 
 
 The Manor of Ilminster, with the whole district, was given by King 
 Athelstan, in 939, to the abbey of Muchelney in this county, founded by 
 Ina, King of the West Saxons ; and in the survey ordered to be taken by 
 William the Conqueror, we find it designated as part of the possessions 
 of that monastery. After the suppression of religious houses, this 
 manor coming to the crown, King Henry VIII., by letters patent bearing 
 date the 30th of January, 1538, granted the same to Edward Earl of 
 Hertford, afterwards created by his nephew Edward VI., Duke of 
 Somerset, better known as protector of the kingdom during this piince's 
 minority. As an act of attainder had passed against the said Duke in 
 1550, the Manor in consequence reverted to the crown, but was after- 
 wards restored by Queen Elizabeth, to his son Edward Seymour, whom 
 she reinstated in all his father's honours and possessions. This noble- 
 man had two sons, but as they both died in their father's life-time, the 
 estate went to a younger branch of the same family. In 1684 the Manor 
 was sold to Sir Thomas Travel, Edward Ryder, and John Gore, in order 
 to discharge various debts and annuities with which the estate had been 
 encumbered by John Lord Seymour, Duke of Somerset. In 1724 
 George Speke, Esq., was sole possessor of the Manor, who devised the 
 
DILLINGTON HOUSE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 same by will to Anne, his only surviving daughter, who married Fre- 
 derick Lord North, by which alliance this estate passed to that very 
 respectable family ; and in process of time came into the possession of 
 
 the present owner. 
 
 The parish of Ilminster is in the hundred of Abdick and Balston, on 
 the road Reading from Somerton to Chard. It is twelve miles south- 
 east from Taunton, and five miles north from Chard. 
 
Cttmore Castle, ^omersets|)tre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN PERCEVAL, 
 
 EARL OF EGMONT. 
 
 The situation of Enmore Castle is on a gently rising ground in the 
 midst of a fine enclosed country, about five miles from Bridgewater, 
 and eight from Taunton. The present Mansion-house was built by 
 John Perceval, first Earl of Egmont, on the spot where formerly stood 
 the old family residence of the Malets. It is a large quadrangular 
 embattled pile, constructed of a dark reddish coloured stone, flanked 
 at each angle by a low square machiolated tower ; with bastion and 
 two circular towers and drawbridge at the principal entrance leading 
 to a spacious court-yard (See the annexed Engraving). The offices 
 are under ground, and look out upon a dry fosse, forty feet wide, and 
 sixteen feet deep, which surrounds the Castle. On the opposite side of 
 the fosse under the lawn, is another range of buildings, consisting of 
 the stables and out-houses, the entrance to which is found at the side 
 of the hill, on the approach to the Mansion. The interior of the Castle 
 is splendidly fitted up, and contains many family portraits, and among 
 other objects of interest, the Bed on which the late Queen Caroline 
 expired. 
 
 Enmore, in the time of the Conqueror, belonged to Roger de Curcelle, 
 son of Wandril de Leon, of a noble Norman family. Shortly after, the 
 Estate became the property of the Malet family, in whose possession it 
 remained for several centuries. William Malet, or Mallet, the first 
 of that name of whom mention is made in history, was a distinguished 
 partisan on the Norman side, at the battle of Hastings, and with others 
 was deputed by William, to see the body of Harold decently interred 
 after the engagement. He left issue two sons, Robert and Gilbert, the 
 latter of whom succeeded his father in the Somerset Estates. This 
 Gilbert was a great favourite with King William, by whom he was 
 appointed High Chamberlain of England ; the king likewise granted 
 him estates in several parts of the kingdom. In the dispute between 
 Henry I., and his brother, Robert, Duke of Normandy, Gilbert Mallet 
 sided with the latter ; whereupon he was stripped of his possessions, 
 and banished the kingdom. His grandson, William, was the last in the 
 male branch of the Mallet family. s 
 
 In an ancient record of the twelfth century, mention is made of 
 
ENMORE CASTLE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 Baldwin Mallet de Enmore. This Baldwin was the son of Hugh 
 Mallet, whose father, William, a distant relation of the above men- 
 tioned Gilbert, had been included in the same sentence of banishment. 
 William left two sons, the latter of whom, named Hugh, during the 
 disgrace of his father, assumed the name of Fitchet, and from him 
 descended many families who settled in the west of England, and re- 
 tained that cognomen. Upon the reconciliation of the family to the 
 king's favour, Baldwin, the eldest son of Hugh, again took the surname 
 of Mallet, and located at Enmore, which ever after became the family 
 residence. Baldwin married Emma, daughter of Ralph de Neville, by 
 whom he left issue Sir William Mallet, who was possessed of Enmore 
 in the time of Richard I. 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Mallet, who died in the 
 reign of Charles II., married John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and by 
 him, who died in 1684, she had three daughters, the eldest of whom, 
 named Anne, married Henry Bayntum, of Spy Park, in the County of 
 Wilts, Esq. This manor in consequence came into the Bayntum family, 
 and from them it descended to Sir Edward Bayntum Rolt, Bart., who, 
 by virtue of an Act of Parliament, sold the same, with other estates, to 
 James Smith, Esq., from whom it was conveyed to the Earl of Egmont, 
 grandfather of the present Earl. 
 
 John Perceval, Earl of Egmont, Viscount Perceval of Kanturk, 
 Baron Perceval of Burton, and a Baronet of Ireland ; Lord Lovel and 
 Holland of Enmore, in the County of Somerset, was born in August, 
 1767, and succeeded his father, John James, the third Earl, in 
 February, 1822. His Lordship married, in March, 1792, Bridget 
 Wynn, niece of Thomas, first Lord Newborough, and has issue one 
 son, namely, John James, Lord Perceval, who is his Lordship's heir. 
 
 Sir John Perceval, first Earl of Egmont, was created Baron 
 Perceval of Burton, afterwards Viscount Perceval of Kanturk, and 
 lastly Earl of Egmont, in the reign of George II. His Lordship 
 married Catharine, daughter of Sir Philip Parker, of Morley, 
 Bart., whose ancestor, Sir William Parker, Standard Bearer to 
 Richard III., married Alice Lovell, sole heiress of Francis, Viscount 
 Lovell and Holland, who was attainted for high treason in 1485. The 
 right therefore to these titles centered in his Lordship's wife, but, 
 owing to the Act of Attainder, no claim could be preferred. His late 
 Majesty, George III., was however pleased, in May, 1762, to bestow 
 upon John, second Earl of Egmont, the dignity of a Peer of Great 
 Britain, by the title of Lord Lovell and Holland, Baron of Enmore, in 
 the County of Somerset. The late Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was assassinated, was a son of John, 
 second Earl of Egmont, brother to the late and uncle to the present 
 Earl. 
 
 Motto : — Sub cruce Candida. 
 
itttton &t George, Somersetshire j 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE KIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN POULETT, 
 
 EARL POULETT. 
 
 The family of Powtrell were the ancient owners of the Manor of 
 Hinton St. George ; and from them it passed into the possession of the 
 Denebands, and so remained for several generations until the marriage 
 of Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Deneband, with Sir William 
 Paulet, Knight ; upon which the manor was transferred to that ancient 
 family, who were afterwards ennobled with the Barony. 
 
 Hercules, Lord of Tournon in Picardy, who came into England 
 with Geoffrey Plantagenet Earl of Anjou, third son of Henry II., 
 according to a custom then prevalent, assumed the name of Paulet, or 
 Poulett, from the place of his settlement near Bridgewater. His de- 
 scendant Sir John Poulett, who died in the reign of Richard II., had 
 issue two sons, Thomas and William ; the former, ancestor of the Earls 
 Poulett ; the latter, of the Dukes of Bolton and Marquesses of Winches- 
 ter. It was by the marriage of Sir William Poulett, son of the elder 
 brother, Thomas, with the heiress of Deneband, that the Hinton Estate 
 came into the family of the Pouletts. 
 
 Sir John Poulett, of Hinton St. George, the eighth in descent from the 
 above-named Thomas, was created in June, 1627, Baron Poulett ; in 
 December, 1706, John the fourth Baron was further advanced in the 
 peerage by the title of Viscount Hinton and Earl Poulett. This noble- 
 man stood high in favour at court, in the reign of Queen Anne, and 
 was appointed by her Majesty, First Lord of the Treasury, and Lord 
 Steward of the Household ; he was also made a Knight of the Garter. 
 As a mark of particular esteem, the Queen was graciously pleased to 
 become one of the sponsors at the baptism of the Earl's fourth son ; 
 who thereupon was named Anne. His Lordship was succeeded by his 
 son John, and he dying unmarried, in November, 1764, his next brother, 
 Vere, the third Earl, became his successor. This nobleman died in 
 April, 1788, when his titles and estates devolved upon his son John, 
 the father of the fifth and present Earl. 
 
 Sir Amias Poulett, who was knighted for his gallant behaviour at 
 the battle of Newark-upon-Trent, in June, 1487, is supposed to have 
 built the noble mansion of Hinton St. George ; and indeed it bears all 
 the characteristic features of the period at which he lived.— The South 
 front, which is the View annexed, exhibits an extensive range of build- 
 ings in the castellated style, which has recently been considerably 
 
HINTON ST. GEORGE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 improved by the present noble proprietor. The principal carriage en- 
 trance is on the west side of the mansion. At the end of the approach, 
 stands a finely proportioned Tower ; under a gothic Arch is the entrance 
 to the grand spacious Hall, or Saloon, which, in its construction and 
 elegance, is scarcely to be equalled in the kingdom. This magnificent 
 room leads to an elegant suite of apartments which contain an extensive 
 collection of pictures and other objects of art and virtu. The body of 
 the edifice is principally of stone, and is partially surmounted by a pierced 
 parapet. The gardens attached to the mansion on this side are low, which 
 affords a fine opportunity for cultivating the tastefully laid out grounds, 
 — The park immediately connected with the gardens is on a gentle emi- 
 nence, from which our View was taken • it commands an extensive pro- 
 spect over the greatest part of the county. 
 
 The parish of Hinton, situated about three miles north-west of 
 Crewkerne, is small. The adjunct of St. George, to which saint the 
 church is dedicated, is generally used to distinguish this from several 
 other towns in the county of the same name. The Living is a Rectory 
 in the Deanery of Crewkerne, and in the gift of Earl Poulett. The 
 following notice of the Manor of Hinton is extracted from the Domesday 
 survey : — 
 
 " William himself holds Hantone. In the time of King Edward it gelded for 13 hides. 
 The arable is twelve carucates. Thereof in demesne are five hides, and there are four 
 carucates, and five servants and sixteen villanes, and twenty-four cottagers with ten 
 ploughs. There are two mills of seven shillings and sixpence rent, and 60 acres of 
 meadow. A wood one mile in length and half a mile broad." 
 
 John Poulett, Earl Poulett, Viscount Hinton, of Hinton St. George, 
 in the County of Somerset, was born in July, 1783 ; and succeeded his 
 father, John the late Earl, in January, 1819. In September, 1820, his 
 Lordship married Charlotte-Fanny-Lucy, daughter of Henry Berkeley 
 Portman, Esq., of Bryanston House, and M. P. for the County of Dorset. 
 Viscount Hinton, his Lordship's eldest son, born in June, 1821, is 
 heir-presumptive to the titles and estates. A second son, named Vere, 
 was born in August, 1822. 
 
 Motto : — Gardez ta foy. 
 
 list of the principal 
 
 Boy and Girl — Murillo. 
 Piping Boy — Ditto. 
 Spanish Boy — Ditto. 
 
 Charles I. — Vandyke. A beautiful portrait. 
 
 Christ in the House of Martha — Bassan. 
 
 Sir Thomas More —Hans Holbein. 
 
 Alexander Pope — Sir G. Kneller. 
 
 John Dryden — Ditto. 
 
 Madonna and Child, by Caracci, encircled 
 
 with flowers, by Montagna. 
 A Man taking a Thorn out of his Foot— A. 
 
 Caracci. 
 
 Five beautiful Cartoons in Fresco ; sub- 
 
 PftttntfjS! at hinton* 
 
 ject, Dido and Eneas. — G. F. Roma- 
 nelli. 
 
 Twenty-four original Drawings, by Ru- 
 bens, for the Luxembourg Gallery. 
 
 A numerous collection of excellent Fa- 
 mily Portraits, Landscapes, &c, by 
 Gibson, Sir P. Lely, Old Stone, Bas- 
 san, Sir G. Kneller, Holbein, Ho- 
 garth, Claude, Dobson, Sir J. Thorn- 
 hill, $c. Also, a great quantity of 
 very rich tapestry, brought from Ver- 
 sailles, at the commencement of the 
 Revolution. 
 
 * # * A very valuable collection of .Pictures belonging to Lord Poulett, is 
 kept at the Dowager Lady Pouletfs house in Piccadilly. 
 
lungs^SEeston, ^otnersetsfitte ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 WILLIAM DICKINSON, ESQ., M. P. 
 
 The Manor of King-Weston was purchased by Caleb Dickinson, Esq., 
 grandfather of the present owner, of Mr. Swadling, whose property it 
 became through an heiress of the Bower family. 
 
 It is a place of great antiquity ; the name being a corruption of 
 Chinwardestune or Kinwardestone, signifying the Town or Habitation 
 of Kinward, a Saxon noble. Kinward was a Thane of royal extraction. 
 At the conquest, this manor was seized on by William the Norman, 
 and given, with several others in this county, to Eustace, Earl of 
 Boulogne. The Norman record gives the following particulars of this 
 place : — 
 
 « Ida, Countess of Bolonia, holds of the King, Chinwardestone. Ulveva held it in 
 the time of King Edward, and gelded for five hides. The arable is eight carucates. 
 Thereof in demesne are two hides, and three virgates ; and there are two carucates, 
 and six servants, and eight villanes, and eight cottagers with five ploughs. There 
 are twenty-five acres of meadow, and twenty-two acres of pasture. A wood three 
 furlongs long and one acre broad. It was and is "worth six pounds." 
 
 King-Weston continued in the same line of possession till A. D. 1114, 
 when Mary, Countess of Boulogne, sister to Matilda, Queen of Henry I., 
 conferred it on the Cluniac Abbey of Bermondsey. 
 
 On the dissolution of the monastery, Henry VIII. granted, by patent, 
 the manor of King- Weston, amongst other things, to James Tutt, 
 Nicholas Hame, and their heirs. The patentees afterwards made over 
 the same to Sir Thomas Moyle, Knight, and his heirs. Sir Thomas 
 left the manor to Thomas Kempe, his grandson, who sold the same to 
 Matthew Smyth, of Long-Ashton, Esq., from whom it passed into the 
 family of Bower. 
 
 The mansion of King-Weston is built of fine grey stone, found on 
 the estate. The interior is divided into many commodious and elegant 
 apartments, containing a choice collection of pictures, and some very 
 fine Italian bronzes, copies of the best Greek statues ; and also of the 
 statues of the 15th century now at Rome and Florence. The View 
 presented in the accompanying Plate, shows the two principal fronts, 
 and was sketched from the gardens. The carriage front is ornamented 
 
KING-WESTON, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 with an elegant Portico of the Doric order, recently executed by W. 
 Wilkins, Esq. ; the Portico and mouldings are of Bath stone. 
 
 The village of King- Weston is finely situated twelve miles south 
 from Wells. Most of the houses are built of blue stone, and are in 
 general very neat. This place is memorable for a signal defeat, which 
 the Rebels of Devonshire and Cornwall experienced in the third year 
 of the reign of Edward VI., when Sir Hugh Powlet, Knight, pursued 
 them after their discomfiture by the king's forces at Exeter, and took 
 their leader prisoner. 
 
 The Church is a small neat building, situated on the highest part of 
 the parish, surrounded with lofty elms and chesnut trees. It has an 
 embattled tower, containing a clock and three bells. Against the north 
 wall of the chancel, is an elegant monument of black and white marble 
 with this inscription : — " M. S. Caleb Dickinson hie sepulti, qui obiit 
 6 t0 - Aprilis 1783 ; et Sarse uxoris, apud Bristoliam sepultse, quae obiit 
 l m0 - Julii 1766. Posuit Gulielmus filius, Anno 1783. — Arms : — Or, a 
 bend engrailed, between two Lions rampant, gules. The Living is a 
 Rectory in the Deanery of Cary. 
 
 In the chancel is deposited a chair, formerly belonging to Glaston- 
 bury Abbey. It is of oak, the back divided into two compartments ; 
 embellished with Gothic carvings in relief ; on one side a shield bearing 
 a crosier with the initials R. W. for Richard Whiting, last Abbot of 
 Glastonbury ; and on the other side, a shield charged with a cross 
 botone, between two leopards' heads in chief, and in base two cinque- 
 foils. This chair was purchased by the late Mr. Dickinson of Mr. 
 More, of Greinton, and deposited here as a relic of monastical 
 antiquity. 
 
 William Dickinson, Esq., the present Lord of the Manor of King- 
 Weston, has for many years represented the County of Somerset in 
 Parliament. 
 
iHontacute f|ouse, Somersetshire ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN PHELIPS, ESQ. 
 
 This ancient and magnificent structure stands upon a gentle ascent, 
 within four miles of the town of Yeovil ; and was built by Sir Edward 
 Phelips, third son of Sir Thomas Phelips of Barrington, Serjeant-at- 
 Arms to Queen Elizabeth. Montacute House is one of the finest 
 specimens of the architecture of the period, combining a simplicity 
 of design with richness of ornament. The form of the building is that 
 of the letter E, intended by Sir Edward as a mark of respect to his 
 royal mistress. 
 
 Plate I., Eastern front. — The Mansion, of brown stone found on the 
 estate, is three stories high, with gables and attics ; and the whole is sur- 
 mounted with balustrades and pinnacles ; the windows and bays are 
 divided with stone mullions ; between each window of the upper story 
 in recesses are figures in ancient costume. The chimneys represent 
 columns of the Doric order. Below the Terrace, which commands a 
 View of the open Country, is a spacious Court, enclosed by a 
 wall with balustrades : the Area is tastefully laid out with 
 gardens and walks. Over the door in the centre compartment 
 are the arms of the family ; viz., argent, a chevron between three 
 roses gules, seeded or, barbel vert, with lions rampant as supporters ; 
 and, over the entrance, the following inscription dictated by the true 
 spirit of old English hospitality • — 
 
 " through tijte ftrttie opening gate 
 
 Bom come too early, none return too late," 
 
 Plate II. — The Western front Was originally grand and imposing, 
 but by the addition of a screen, removed from Clifton House, near 
 Yeovil, and put up here about 60 years since by Edward Phelips, Esq., 
 it now presents an unrivalled appearance of richness and elegance. The 
 screen is a beautiful specimen of the style of Inigo Jones. It is placed 
 
MONT ACUTE HOUSE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 in front of the centre compartment, and surmounted by a pierced 
 parapet, turrets, grotesque figures of animals, &c. Over this door also 
 are the arms of Phelips ; and the motto, 
 
 The whole length of the edifice is about 200 feet, and the height 92 
 feet. At each end are bays which give light to a spacious apartment 
 or gallery, 189 feet long by 21 feet wide, which was originally the 
 library, fitted up in the most costly style, containing many rare works ; 
 but the whole of this valuable collection was destroyed by Cromwell's 
 troops in the great rebellion. This part of the building was afterwards 
 converted into a picture gallery. The windows of the present library 
 and hall are of finely painted glass, representing the arms of different 
 families quartered with those of Phelips. 
 
 The Mansion is divided into many handsome and spacious apartments, 
 in the restoration of which the present possessor has spared no expense. 
 The stair-cases are of stone ; and the dining room, an elegant apartment, 
 is wainscotted with small pannelling. The hall is embellished with a 
 perfect series of family portraits, beginning with the founder's, painted 
 by the old masters ; they are in fine preservation. In the other rooms 
 are many valuable pictures, of which a list is given below. A very 
 curious model of the old custom of Skimmiting riding, in basso- 
 relievo, four feet six inches high, is placed over the entrance into the 
 hall. Skimmiting, or, as it is called in the north of England, Stang 
 riding, is still kept up in many parts of the kingdom for the 
 purpose of exposing to shame and ridicule the man who has 
 been guilty of cruelty or infidelity towards his wife. In the model 
 here mentioned, the wife, accompanied by a crowd of villagers, 
 is represented in effigy bestowing a few sound blows with her shoe 
 upon her faithless partner, and the artist has, with happy effect, in- 
 troduced a Church in the back ground, to intimate that certain vows 
 and promises which had been there solemnly pledged, ought to have 
 been kept in remembrance. 
 
 The building was begun in 1580, and finished in 1601, at an expense 
 of not less than £19,500. It has continued in the Founder's family ever 
 since in the following line of succession : Sir Edward Phelips, Master 
 of the Rolls, Chancellor to Henry Prince of Wales, and Speaker of the 
 House of Commons in the time of Queen Elizabeth and James I. ; 
 Sir Robert Phelips, his son, in the reign of James I. and Charles I. ; 
 Colonel Edward Phelips, during the common-wealth, and Charles II. ; 
 Sir Edward Phelips, Knight, in James II., and William III.: his 
 nephew, Edward Phelips, Esq., in Queen Anne, and George I. : Ed- 
 ward Phelips, Esq., in George II.; William Phelips, Esq., in George 
 III. ; lastly, John Phelips, Esq., in the present reign of George IV. 
 2 
 
MONTACUTE HOUSE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 The family of Phelips (once spelt Phellipps), came over with William 
 the Conqueror, and in consideration of military services were rewarded 
 by the King with grants of lands in Wales, where they were long set- 
 tled. In the 14th century, they migrated into Somersetshire. A branch 
 of the family located at Corf-Mullen, in Dorsetshire, having received a 
 grant of that Manor from Henry VIII., and they represented Poole 
 and Wareham in several Parliaments. The family suffered much from 
 their devotion to the royal cause in the reign of Charles I. ; and after- 
 wards, when Colonel Edward Phelips (as appears in Clarendon's His- 
 tory of the Rebellion, and in other records) , united with Colonel Wynd- 
 ham in secreting Charles II., and in carrying him out of the king- 
 dom. 
 
 The parish of Montacute, four miles south-west from Ivelchester or 
 Ilchester, was originally a Borough-Town ; but was dis-franchised on 
 petition of the inhabitants on account of the expense. In the time of 
 Leland it had but a poor market ; now it has none. It was formerly a 
 great mart for leather. There are four tithings in the parish, viz: — 
 Bishopston, Hyde, the Borough, and Widcombe; besides a small Hamlet 
 called Thorn. Widcombe was entirely depopulated by the great plague. 
 The Town in Bishopston tithing, consists of three streets, numbering 
 1060 inhabitants, and still retains many of its old customs and privileges. 
 
 Montacute derives its name from a conical hill, (mons acutus,) called 
 St. Michael's Mount, on which is a round Tower, 60 feet high, com- 
 manding a very grand and extensive view through the Vale of Somer- 
 set, to the British Channel. The base of the Mount contains 20 acres. 
 At the foot of this hill is the scite of a Priory of black Cluniac Monks, 
 suppressed by Henry VIII., of which there only remains a fine old 
 gate-way. A few years ago some Roman Vases were dug up in this 
 neighbourhood ; and are still preserved at Montacute House. A grant 
 was made of this spot to Sir William Petre, and sold by him to Mr. 
 Robert Freke, of whom it was soon afterwards purchased by the family 
 of Phelips, who were before that time possessors of a part of the 
 Manor. 
 
 The living is vicarial in the Deanery of Ilchester, and in the gift of 
 John Phelips, Esq. The Rev. R. C. Phelips is the present incumbent. 
 On an old monument in the church is the following inscription : — 
 
 Thomas Phelips, Esq., - - - - Buried - 158S. 
 
 Sir Edward Phelips, Knt., - - — - 1614. 
 
 Sir Robert Phelips, Knt., ... — - 1638. 
 
 Edward Phelips, Esq., ... — - 1679. 
 
 Sir Edward Phelips, Knt., - - — - 1699. 
 
 Edward Phelips, Esq., ... — - 1734. 
 
 Edward Phelips, Esq., - - - - — - 1797. 
 
 William Phelips, Clerk, - - - — - 1806. 
 
 3 
 
MONT ACUTE HOUSE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 a list of Pictures at Spontacute, 
 
 IN THE GREAT HALL. 
 
 A Boar Piece and a Dog - — Snyders. 
 Cattle Pieces — Beech. 
 A series of Family Portraits by the Old 
 Masters. 
 
 THE GREAT DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 A Portrait of the great Earl of Essex, 
 given by him to his friend, Sir Edward 
 Phelips. — Also, a Portrait of James [., 
 given by that monarch to Sir Robert 
 Phelips. 
 
 Our Saviour's Baptism — Salrator Rosa. 
 Cattle Pieces — Wouvermans. 
 
 Dutch Pieces — Teniers. 
 
 A large Family Picture-^Beec/;. 
 
 THE SMALL DINING ROOM, 
 STAIR CASE AND GALLERIES. 
 
 -Portraits of Connections of the Family — 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds and Beech. 
 
 THE SMALL DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 A fine Cattle Piece — Wouvermans. 
 St. John's Head in a Charger — Dominico 
 Feti. 
 
 *#* In addition to the above are some excellent Paintings of the Dutch School, 
 the Authors of which are not known. 
 
 4 
 
antrtjtll $arft, ^ometsrtsljtve % 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR THO BUCKLER LETHBRIDGE, BART., M. P. 
 
 Sandhill Park, which is a beautifully wooded spot, commanding; 
 magnificent views of the vale, bounded by the Quantock Hills on the 
 north-east, and the Black-down Hills to the south, is situated partly in 
 the Parish of Bishop's Lydiard, and partly in the Parish of Ash 
 Priors, in the hundred of Kingsbury West, and contiguous to Taunton 
 Dean, Somersetshire ; and has been now in the possession of Sir 
 Thomas Lethbridge, his father Sir John Lethbridge, and his great 
 uncle the late John Periam, Esq., from the building of the Mansion 
 about the year 1720 ; since which it has undergone, at different times, 
 many improvements, particularly in the year 1815, when it was 
 inherited by the present owner, who then added two wings to the main 
 body of the House, containing several apartments of large dimensions, 
 among others a Library fifty feet by twenty-six ; and a Dining-room 
 fifty by thirty. In the Library there is a good collection of Books, 
 both ancient and modern ; and in the great Hall of Entrance, the Stair- 
 case, and Drawing-room, there are, some valuable pictures of Salvator 
 Rosa, Poussin, Guido, Vandervelt, Timotio d'Urbino, Snyders, Cuyp, 
 and portraits by Sir Antonio More, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hudson, &c. There is also a fine-toned 
 Organ on the stair-case, built by Abbey in 1820. The character of 
 the building is Doric, with a Portico supported by eight handsome 
 columns at the entrance, and a bay in the eastern front corresponding 
 with the same, (seethe annexed Plate). There is also leading to the 
 pleasure-ground and gardens, an extensive and ornamental Conserva- 
 tory attached to the western wing, from whence are to be seen fine 
 views of the different sheets of water in the Park, and the wooded 
 valley beyond. 
 
 In the Parish of Bishop's Lydiard, is a place called Conquest, 
 part of the domain now belonging to Sandhill Park, near which, in 
 1666, a very large urn was dug up, containing four-score pounds 
 weight of Roman coins, of the Emperors Claudius, Nero, Domitian, 
 Nerva, Trajan, Antonine, Severus, and a great many others. From 
 this and other discoveries, together with the name of the place, a 
 late writer has asserted, that it was in some part of this valley the 
 Romans completed so much of the Conquest of Britain, as is now 
 called England. It is, however, more commonly believed that this 
 spot took its name from a victory over the Danes, by the Saxons, 
 under Alfred the Great, who, we are told, at the time of his obscurity, 
 was in possession of this territory, and afterwards made a grant of it 
 to a learned monk, who had been tutor to his son. 
 
SANDHILL PARK, SOMERSETSHIRE* 
 
 At a later period the bishop of Bath and Wells became possessed 
 of this large and valuable district. About the time of the Norman 
 conquest we read : — 
 
 " The same Bishop holds Lidegar : he also held it in the time of King Edward, and 
 gelded for ten hides ; wanting one virgate. The arable is sixteen carucates. Thereof 
 are in Demesne three hides, and there are two carucates and five servants, and twenty 
 villanes, and twelve cottagers with six ploughs. There is a mill rendering thirty-one 
 pence, and thirty acres of meadow. Pasture one mile long and three furlongs broad, 
 and much wood." 
 
 Henry III., in the forty-first year of his reign, granted to the 
 bishop of the Diocese, a charter of free warren, in all his lands of 
 Lydiard, and other places : and Edward I. granted a charter for a 
 weekly market, and two annual fairs ; which charters received con- 
 firmation from other kings ; and which are supposed to be in the 
 possession of the present Lord of the Manor. The last bishop that 
 possessed the manor, was Barlow : he, in 1548, exchanged it with 
 Edward VI. for other lands, since which it fell by grant and purchase 
 to Legge Lord Stawell, of Cothelstone, and from him was conveyed 
 to the late John Periam, Esq., and so is at length descended to Sir 
 Thomas Lethbridge, with the adjoining manor of Ash Priors, and his 
 other extensive possessions in this part of the west. 
 
 The soil of this portion of the vale of Taunton Dean is singularly 
 fertile, and there is an abundance of the red sand freestone under 
 Sandhill Park, and much good limestone on the adjoining farms. The 
 church-tower, which was built of the freestone above-named in the 
 reign of Henry VIII., still remains a striking and beautiful specimen 
 of the architecture of that day. 
 
 The family of Lethbridge had been settled in Devonshire, at 
 Westaway and Winkleigb Court for many generations, as is testified 
 by the ancient monuments in the curious old church of St. Mary 
 Arches, Exeter, and Pilter church, near Barnstaple. One of the 
 family, Thomas Lethbridge, Esq., married Sarah the daughter of 
 John Periam, of Milverton, Esq., descended from Sir William Periam, 
 Knight, of the Middle Temple, appointed Lord Chief Baron of the 
 Exchequer by Queen Elizabeth ; and had issue — 1st. Christopher 
 Lethbridge, of Westaway House, Esq., who had a daughter and sole 
 heiress, Elizabeth, married to the Honourable Hugh Somerville, father 
 of John Lord Somerville; and 2d. John Lethbridge, of Westaway, 
 and Winkleigh Court, in the County of Devon, Esq., who married 
 Grace Carder, of Westdown, in the same county, and had issue one 
 son, Sir John Lethbridge, created a Baronet, 15th June, 1804, who, 
 dying 15th December, 1815, was succeeded by the present Baronet, 
 Sir Thomas, who has represented the County of Somerset in several 
 Parliaments, since the year 1806. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, over water proper, a Bridge of jive arches, 
 embattled, and over the centre arch a Turret gules in chief, an Eagle 
 displayed, sable, charged on the breast ivith a Bezant. 
 
 Motto : — Spes me a in Deo, 
 
IMS palace, Somersetshire j 
 
 THE RESIDENCE OF THE 
 
 RIGHT REV. GEORGE HENRY LAW, 
 
 D.D. F.R.S. & F.S.A., 
 LORD BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 
 
 This venerable structure stands south of the Cathedral, and bears a 
 great resemblance to the mansions of the ancient military barons. Its 
 walls encompass seven acres of ground, and are flanked by redoubts 
 and half-moons. The whole building is surrounded by a Moat, sup- 
 plied with water from St. Andrew's Well ; and over it, on the north 
 side, is a Bridge leading to the stately Gate-house, which serves as an 
 entrance to the exterior Court. The Dwelling-house is situated on the 
 east side of the Court, and contains several large and handsome apart- 
 ments, together with a private Chapel. The accompanying Plate pre- 
 sents a View of the exterior of this part of the noble Palace ; the naked 
 windows of which give it an appearance of architectural simplicity. 
 
 The Crypt, which for some time had been used as a lumber-room, has 
 been recently cleared out, and converted into a receptacle for articles 
 in mineralogy and fossils, of which the present Lord Bishop has a choice 
 collection. 
 
 Proceeding to the south side of the Court, are found the remains of 
 the great Hall, which, Leland informs us, was exceeding fair. It was 
 demolished about the latter end of the fifteenth century by fanatic plun- 
 derers, who carried off the lead and other valuable materials. Its 
 length was 120 feet, breadth nearly 70 ; and it had a handsome arched 
 Porch, with a Vault and Chamber over it. 
 
 The Close is a neat building, having, at the south end, next the street, 
 a Hall, with a Buttery and other conveniencies, under which is the 
 arched Gate-way and entrance into the Cloisters. At the other end is 
 the Chapel, with a Library over it ; and between these two buildings 
 are twenty contiguous dwelling-houses, on each side, for as many 
 vicars choral, who are incorporated and endowed with lands and other 
 revenues. 
 
 The Cathedral, dedicated to St. Andrew, is situated at the east end 
 of the city, and built in the form of a cross. The greater part of this 
 noble structure was erected about the year 1239, by Bishop Joceline or 
 Welles. The western front is esteemed one of the most superb specimens 
 of Gothic in the kingdom, and is richly decorated with images. In the 
 centre of the transepts is a large handsome quadrangular Tower, con- 
 taining five bells ; the western front is flanked by two smaller Towers. 
 The interior has a very neat and chaste appearance, and contains nine 
 
WELLS PALACE, SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 elegant Chapels, the principal of which is that dedicated to the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary. 
 
 In the year 704, Ina, King of the West Saxons, animated by re- 
 ligious zeal, laid the foundation of a Collegiate Church at this place ; 
 from which period may be dated the origin of the City of Wells. In 
 905 Aldhelm, who had received episcopal ordination from Plegmund, 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, was placed over Ina's College at Wells; 
 and the province of Somerset was assigned to him for his diocese. His 
 successor Wifeline laid the foundation of the Cathedral. John de 
 Villula, the sixteenth Bishop, being strongly attached to the City of 
 Bath, whence he derived his infant fortune, fixed there his pontifical 
 seat about the year 1087, and assumed the title of Bishop of Bath. In 
 the course of a few years this gave rise to violent disputes betwixt the 
 people of Bath and Wells as to which City should be honoured with the 
 primary distinction ; and the matter being referred to the Lord Bishop 
 of the Diocese, Robert of Normandy, he ordained that the See 
 should take its name from both churches conjointly; that the Prelates 
 should be called Bishops of Bath and Wells ; that upon a vacancy, 
 each church should appoint an equal number of delegates, by whose 
 votes the Bishops should be chosen ; and that he should be installed 
 both at Bath and Wells. During the prelacy of Savaricus, the twentieth 
 Bishop, the Monastery of Glastonbury was annexed to this See by a 
 grant from Richard I.j whereupon he took the name of Bishop of 
 Glastonbury, and thither he transferred the See. This was revoked in 
 the time of his successor. Thomas de Beckington, who held the See 
 between the years 1443 and 1464, was the greatest patron to the Church 
 of Wells. 
 
 Dr. Kenn, who presided over the diocese in the reign of James II., 
 is well known in history as one of the seven Bishops sent to the Tower 
 for refusing to read the king's declaration of indulgence ; and likewise 
 for his conduct upon the arrival of King William, when, being called 
 upon to take the usual oaths to the new king, this conscientious divine 
 chose rather to relinquish his preferment than transfer his allegiance. 
 
 George Henry Law r D.D. F.R.S. and F.S.A., the present Lord 
 Bishop of Bath and Wells, is a son of the late Dr. Law, Bishop of 
 Carlisle, and brother to that eminent lawyer, the late Lord Ellenborough. 
 His Lordship was consecrated Bishop of Chester in 1812, and upon the 
 death of Dr. Beadon, in 1824, was translated to the See of Bath and 
 Wells. This very amiable prelate, sensible of the evils accruing from 
 clergymen not residing upon their benefices, has zealously exerted him- 
 self since his elevation to the episcopal bench, to render the labours of 
 the clergy more effectual by enforcing the Law in this particular; and 
 it will prove highly gratifying to the real friends of the Church of 
 England to know that his endeavours have been followed by the hap- 
 piest results. 
 
^tng'S Bromlep ©all, ^tafforteijtre ? 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 MRS. LANE. 
 
 King's Bromley Hall was built in the beginning of the last cen- 
 tury, and is a handsome edifice, surrounded by beautiful and extensive 
 shrubberies, through which the River Trent flows. There is a flower- 
 garden on an island romantically situated, from which is a good view 
 of the falls of the river. The interior of the house contains many good 
 apartments : there is also an extensive and very fine Library, the books 
 of which were chiefly collected by the late John Lane, Esq. ; and a 
 good collection of Coins and other curiosities, among which may be 
 ranked an original Letter from Charles II. to Mrs. Jane Lane, from 
 Paris, with a Miniature of himself sent to her at the same time. 
 
 King's Bromley Hall is situated in the rich vale of Trent, five miles 
 from Lichfield, and eight from Wolseley Bridge, and was originally the 
 residence of the Earls of Mercia. It continued in the king's hands 
 until the time of Henry III., when it passed to the Corbets, and from 
 them to a family of the name of Praers in the reign of Edward IV. In 
 1508 it passed to the family of Partrich, with whom it remained till the 
 reign of Elizabeth, when it was sold by Edward Partrich to F. Agard, 
 of Derbyshire : subsequently Thomas Lane, of Hyde, Esq., and Jer- 
 mayne Roper, of Heynor, Esq., laid claim to this estate as heirs-at-law ; 
 the said Edward being a bastard. The cause was referred to the arbi- 
 tration of Walter, Earl of Essex, Thomas Bromley, Esq., the queen's 
 solicitor, and Ralph Rookeby, Esq., when it was settled that F. Agard 
 should enjoy his purchase on payment of 100/. to the said claimants. 
 This claim on the part of Lane, was certainly just, as the baton of bas- 
 tardy is upon all the seals of Edward Partrich, and is remarkable, Lane 
 being the ancestor of the present possessors. King's Bromley re- 
 mained in the family of Agard till, in 1670, it was sold to Mr. New- 
 ton, of South Wingfield in Derbyshire, and of the island of Barba- 
 does. The last Mr. Newton died in 1783, and by his will left his 
 Estates of King's Bromley, and his property in Derbyshire and Bar- 
 badoes to his sisters, Lady Holte and Mrs. Elizabeth Newton. Lady 
 Holte died in April, 1784, and Mrs. E. Newton in December of the 
 same year. The latter by her will devised King's Bromley and some of 
 her West Indian Estates to her Cousins, John and Thomas Lane, Esqrs. 
 On the division of the property, King's Bromley was allotted to the 
 
KING'S BROMLEY HALL, STAFFORDSHIRE. 
 
 elder Brother, the late John Lane, Esq., an eminent barrister of Lin- 
 coln's Inn, who, on his accession of fortune and marriage, quitted his 
 profession, and constantly resided at King's Bromley, which he much 
 improved. It is now (1828) the property and residence of his widow, 
 who was Sarah, only daughter of John Lloyd, Esq., of the Wyle-Cop 
 Shrewsbury, and who married, first, John Amler, Esq. of Ford Hall, 
 Shropshire. This gentleman died about two years after his marriage, 
 and left an only daughter and heiress, who married, in 1811, William 
 Edward Tomline, Esq., M. P., eldest son of the late Bishop of Win- 
 chester. In 1799, Mrs. Amler married the late John Lane, Esq., and 
 by him had two sons ; John Newton Lane, Esq., married January 8th, 
 1828, Agnes, second daughter of Lord Bagot by Lady Louisa Legge, 
 daughter of the late Earl of Dartmouth ; and the Rev. Thomas Leveson 
 Lane, Vicar of King's Bromley. 
 
 The family of Lane is of great antiquity, and came over (if the Battle 
 Abbey roll is to be credited) with William the Conqueror. In the 9th 
 Edward II. Richard de la Lona, or Lane, descended from Adam de Lona 
 de Hampton, lived at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. His great grand- 
 son, by a marriage with the heiress of the family of Hyde, came into 
 possession of Hyde in the same county. 
 
 His son, John Lane, purchased Bentley, and was styled, in the reign 
 of Henry VI., John Lane de Bentley et de la Hyde, Arm. It was 
 Colonel John Lane of Bentley, Esq., who received and concealed King 
 Charles II. after the battle of Worcester ; and whose sister, Jane Lane, 
 afterwards Lady Fisher, rode on horseback behind that Monarch in 
 disguise, and thus conveyed him from Staffordshire to a friend's house 
 near Bristol, from whence he afterwards safely escaped to France. 
 For these signal services, after the Restoration, pensions were granted 
 to Colonel John Lane and his sister ; and the family was moreover dig- 
 nified with this special badge of honour, the Arms of England in a 
 canton, in augmentation of their paternal Arms. It is also handed 
 down in the family that a peerage was offered to Colonel Lane, but re- 
 fused. The family of Lane continued to live at Bentley till 1740, when, 
 in consequence of three generations of spendthrifts, it was sold, and is 
 now the property of Viscount Anson. 
 
 tifit of gamt of tfis Picture* at fting'* Brontleg ^all. 
 
 A Head — Rembrandt. 
 
 Landscape — Ruisdael. 
 
 Landscape — Gainsborough. 
 
 Landscape — Van Goyer. 
 
 Doge's Palace at Venice — Canaletti. 
 
 Two Landscapes — Artois. 
 
 A Harper — Mieris. 
 
 Bagpipe and Violin Player — Ostade. 
 
 Duke of Gloucester, Son of Charles I. 
 
 — Vandyke. 
 Sir Hoi re — Cornelius Jansen. 
 
 Mrs. Jane Lane — Sir Peter Lely. 
 Colonel John Lane — Unknown. 
 Colonel Thomas Lane — Vandyke. 
 Sir Thomas Lane— Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 King Charles — Ditto. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Newton — Gainsborough. 
 Miss Seymour — Ditto. 
 Mr. Alleyne— Ditto. 
 Miss Alleyne — Ditto. 
 Lady Alleyne and her Children — Un- 
 known. 
 
j&otfmrg $atfc, gutter ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 HENRY P. SPERLING, ESQ. 
 
 Norbury Park is agreeably situate in the parish of Mickleham, 
 between Leatherhead and Dorking, and forms one of the prettiest 
 objects included in the view from the summit of Box-Hill. The present 
 Mansion-house was built by Mr. Lock, about the year 1775, on a spot con- 
 siderably removed from the ancient Edifice, which had been inhabited 
 by the proprietors of the Estate many centuries ago, and which stood in 
 the meadows nearer the river. The annexed Engraving presents a 
 sketch of the Carriage-front of the new House erected by Mr. Lock upon 
 a well chosen beautiful situation, under which the river Mole winds its 
 « sullen course." The whole exterior, including the offices, is white. 
 The principal entrance is by a flight of steps under a Doric portico, 
 with an elegant Venetian window on each side. Views of the romantic 
 mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland are painted by 
 Barrett on the sides of one of the principal rooms ; and are so disposed 
 as to form a pleasing addition to the beautifully variegated landscape 
 which meets the eye from the windows. 
 
 In the reign of Edward II., Norbury in Mickleham was held by 
 William Husee, of Gilbert Earl of Clare and Gloucester, by the 
 service of half a knight's fee, value £ 10 per annum. Husee's grand- 
 daughter and heiress, Isabel, married William Wymeldon, in which 
 family the property remained until the time of Henry VII., when it was 
 divided by two co-heiresses. Upon this division the place or manor 
 of Norbury in Mickleham, was given to Thomas Stodewolfe, or Stidulf, 
 who had married the elder sister. This Stidulf was a branch of an 
 ancient Saxon family of the same name, seated at Stidulf's place, in the 
 parish of Seal, near Sevenoaks in Kent, and who possessed large 
 Estates in that county. Richard Stidulf, the fifth in descent from 
 Thomas, was created a Baronet in December 1660, but leaving only 
 
NORBURY PARK, SURREY. 
 
 two daughters, the title died with him. Lady Astley the elder daugh- 
 ter, devised all her Manors, &c., to her youngest nephew, James Tryon. 
 
 Mr. Tryon, by his will bearing date January, 1722, left all his pro- 
 perty to his nephew Charles Tryon, in fee. This gentleman, in 1728, 
 having married Lady Mary, daughter of Robert Earl Ferrers, settled 
 on her, among others, the Manor of Norbury, together with the Man- 
 sion-house and lands of Norbury, as a jointure. Subject thereto, he, 
 by will dated in June, 1743, devised the same to his eldest son Charles' 
 in fee. In 1765, the estate was sold to Anthony Chapman, Esq., of 
 London, for £35,000. In 1774 Mr. Chapman disposed of Norbury Park 
 to William Lock, Esq., the founder of the present Mansion, in which he 
 resided upwards of thirty years ; and after his death, his son sold it to 
 Fuller Maitland, Esq., M. P., who exchanged it for Park Place, in Berk- 
 shire, the property and residence of Henry Sperling, Esq., the present 
 possessor of Norbury Park. This gentleman has made anew and much 
 easier approach to the Mansion, than was afforded by the old road, at the 
 same time disclosing the beauties of the surrounding scenery.' Mr. 
 Sperling has also planted largely, and laid out some beautiful walks and 
 flower gardens, thus giving additional effect to the picturesque grounds 
 of Norbury. The Yew-trees, for which it is famed, are recorded in 
 Domesday Book, and are no doubt many of them from one to two thousand 
 years old: here are also some magnificent Beech-trees. Upon the 
 whole there are few places to be compared with Norbury for healthiness 
 of situation, variety of landscape, and cheerfulness of prospect. 
 
3nmtiei Castle, ^usstx; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 HIS GRACE BERNARD EDWARD HOWARD, 
 
 DUKE OF NORFOLK, &c. 
 
 This ancient ducal residence is situated on the north-east side of the 
 town of Arundel, and is supposed to have been built at the beginning 
 of the reign of King Alfred, as that monarch bequeathed it to his 
 nephew Athelm, and this is the first authentic notice we find of it. 
 Some authors suppose Bevis, from whom one of the towers takes its 
 name, to have been the founder of this Castle. Nothing more is how- 
 ever known, than that Bevis was Warder at the Gate of the Earls of 
 Arundel, and probably this Tower was built for his reception. The 
 next historical notice to be found of Arundel Castle, is in a grant made 
 of it soon after the Norman Conquest by King William to Roger de 
 Montgomery, created Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury, who repaired 
 it. In Domesday-day book it is described, in the territory of Earl 
 Roger, as a Castle, which is the only notice of a castle in that Survey. 
 
 The subject of Plate I., is a general view of the Castle, which 
 stands on the summit of a hill, at whose foot flows the river Arun. It 
 is surrounded on the west and north side by a deep and wide ditch. 
 This fortress suffered considerably during the great Rebellion, and re- 
 mained in a ruinous condition until the year 1791, when the late Duke 
 of Norfolk restored a great part of it in the ancient style, and ex- 
 pended about 5,000/. a year on it till his death. In order to complete the 
 alterations, it became necessary to take down some of the most interesting 
 parts of the old building, but in many places the original walls were 
 built upon. Considerable taste as well as judgment was evinced by 
 his Grace, in the selection of plans and materials. The stone selected, 
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ARUNDEL CASTLE, SUSSEX. 
 
 is of three kinds, Portland, Ketton, and Whitby, as being best suited to 
 render the new work similar to the remains of the ancient fabric. 
 The entrance Gate-way, anciently fortified by a drawbridge and port- 
 cullis, was built by Richard Fitzallan in the reign of Edward I., and 
 repaired and restored by the fifth Earl. The domestic Offices occupy 
 the whole of the ground-floor around a spacious Court, (Plate II.) over 
 these is a magnificent Library in imitation of the aisle of a Gothic 
 Cathedral, the ornaments of which are taken from the cloisters at Glou- 
 cester and St. George's, Windsor, 122 feet long and 30 wide : the ceil- 
 ing, columns, &c, are entirely of mahogany. It is calculated to contain 
 10,000 volumes. The Great Hall, called the Barons' Hall, was begun 
 in 1806, and is 70 feet by 34, and 36 feet high, the roof being of Span- 
 ish Chesnut curiously wrought, and the plan taken from Westminster, 
 Eltham, and Crosby Halls. There is a series of stained glass Windows, 
 thirteen in number, pourtraying the figures of some of the Barons from 
 whom the late Duke was descended, and they are likewise portraits of 
 his family. The window at the end of the Hall represents King John 
 signing Magna Charta. The Dining-room is a large handsome 
 apartment, having at one end a window of painted glass, by Eggington, 
 representing the late Duke and Duchess in the characters of Solomon 
 and the Queen of Sheba, at a banquet. At the opposite end of this 
 room is an Orchestra, and over the door is an imitation of basso-relievo, 
 by Le Brun, of Adam and Eve, in Paradise. There is another stained- 
 window, by Eggington, at the Gallery, which divides these apartments 
 from a range of Bed-chambers. 
 
 Some of the walls, together with the Keep, is all that now remains of 
 the ancient Castle of Arundel. The Keep is a circular stone tower, 
 60 feet in diameter, and is the most perfect in England. It has been 
 tenanted for some years by owls. These birds were sent as a present 
 to the late Duke of Norfolk from North America ; they are very large 
 and of beautiful plumage. Each bird has a significant name given to 
 it. On the south side of the Keep was the ancient entrance, now partly 
 walled up » it consisted of a circular early Norman arch richly orna- 
 mented. 
 
 The descendants of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, did not 
 long keep possession of this castle. In the reign of Henry I., Robert 
 de Bellesme, who sided with Robert, Duke of Normandy, in asserting 
 his claim to the crown of England, was, in consequence, deprived of all 
 his honours, and outlawed by the reigning monarch. After this, the 
 king settled the castle on Adeliza, his second queen, as part of her 
 dower : and here she continued to reside during the remainder of her 
 life. Upon the accession of King Stephen, Adeliza, refusing to coun- 
 tenance his usurpation, received the Empress Matilda into her Castle of 
 Arundel, wherein she was closely besieged by Stephen. There was an 
 2 
 
ARUNDEL CASTLE, SUSSEX. 
 
 air of gallantry mixed with the warlike proceedings of this period, 
 scarcely to be expected. Upon this occasion, intimation being given to 
 Stephen that the Dowager Queen had received the Empress upon terms 
 of hospitality rather than of hostility against him, Stephen suspended the 
 siege, allowed Matilda to go forth, and gave her safe conduct to Bristol. 
 Adeliza afterwards married William de Albini, one of the most accom- 
 plished men of his age, and who is said to have acquired the surname 
 of Main-forte, or Strong Hand, from the circumstance of his tearing 
 out by its roots the tongue of a lion, into whose den he had been shut 
 up to be devoured, as an act of revenge exercised by the Queen of 
 France, for declining the offer of her hand, and accepting that of 
 Adeliza. 
 
 Arundel Castle continued in the family of Albini until the death of 
 Hugh, the last male heir, in 1243, when his estates were divided among 
 his four sisters. In consequence of this division, the castle and manor 
 of Arundel went to Isabel, wife of John Fitz-Alan, who thereupon 
 assumed the title of Earl of Arundel. Edmund, fourth Earl of Arundel, 
 in descent from John Fitz-Alan, forfeited all the honours and estates of 
 his family, in consequence of having joined the barons in their opposi- 
 tion to the favourites of Edward II., which was considered as an act of 
 rebellion. The king afterwards made a grant of Arundel Castle to 
 Edmund of Woodstock, his uncle. The act of attainder was however 
 reversed upon the accession of Edward III., and Richard Fitz-Alan, 
 son of the last possessor, was reinstated. The Earls of Arundel, from 
 their influence, were led to participate in all the principal events of 
 English history. Richard, Earl of Arundel, was accused of joining in 
 a conspiracy to dethrone Richard II., and being found guilty of high 
 treason, was beheaded. The king has been charged with exercising 
 undue severity upon this occasion, and that he even went so far as to 
 intimidate the judges, in order to secure a conviction. Froissart, the 
 chronicler, reports that the king witnessed the execution of this noble- 
 man, the sight of which operated so powerfully on his mind, that he 
 never recovered from its effects. The estates of this unfortunate noble- 
 man were confiscated, and given as a reward for services to the Earl 
 Marshal, on whose testimony he had been convicted. But this act of 
 attainder was soon after reversed by Henry IV., and his son Thomas 
 Fitz-Alan recovered possession of the family estates. This nobleman 
 died without issue in 1415, when the castle devolved upon his cousin, 
 Sir John Fitz-Alan, commonly called Sir John Arundel. About this 
 time a dispute arose respecting the title of Earl of Arundel. The con- 
 tending parties were this Sir John Arundel, who claimed a seat in the 
 Upper House, in right of his tenure of the castle, and John Mowbray, 
 Duke of Norfolk, who preferred the same claim. Judgment was given 
 in favour of the former, and an act of parliament was passed to the 
 3 
 
ARUNDEL CASTLE, SUSSEX. 
 
 effect, that the possession of this castle and honour conferred the 
 dignity of Earl without creation. The last male heir of the Fitz- Alans, 
 who died in the reign of Elizabeth, left an only daughter, who married 
 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and thus conveyed the earldom and 
 estate into that distinguished family, in which they have ever since 
 remained. 
 
 At the time of the great rebellion, Arundel Castle was at first in the 
 hands of the Parliament, but was taken from them after sustaining a 
 siege of three days, by the Lord Hopton. Sir William Waller re- 
 gained possession of it for the Parliament, with equal facility, about 
 six months after. The famous Chillingworth acted as engineer on this 
 occasion. 
 
 Bernard Edward Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk of the Howard fa- 
 mily, Earl Marshal, and hereditary Marshal of England, Earl of Arun- 
 del, Surrey, and Norfolk ; Baron Fitz-Alan, Clun and Oswaldestre, and 
 Maltravers, F. R. and A. S., premier Duke and Earl next the Blood 
 Royal, was born in 1765, and succeeded Charles, the late Duke, to 
 whom he was fourth cousin, in December, 1815. In 1789 his Grace 
 married Elizabeth, second daughter of Henry Belasyse, second and 
 last Earl of Fauconberg, and by her had issue Henry Charles, Earl 
 of Surrey, born in August, 1791, and who married, in 1814, Charlotte 
 Sophia Leveson Gower, eldest daughter of George, Marquess of Staf- 
 ford, K. G., by whom he has issue. His Grace, being a Roman Ca- 
 tholic, was incapacitated from discharging the duties attached to the 
 office of Earl Marshal until June, 1824, when an act was passed, spe- 
 cially granting that privilege. 
 
 Motto : — Sola virtus invicta. 
 
 4 
 
asPurttfmm Pace, &umj; ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE ASHBURNHAM, 
 
 EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, F.S.A., &c. 
 
 This noble Mansion stands in the midst of an extensive Park, con- 
 taining much fine timber and well stocked with deer. The Edifice 
 has been lately rebuilt from the designs and under the superintendance 
 of the late George Dance, Esq., R. A., whose peculiar skill in orna- 
 mental architecture has been here exercised with taste and elegance. 
 The principal front (a View of which, taken from the Bridge crossing 
 the Canal is annexed) is divided into seven compartments, separated 
 by hexagonal Turret-formed buttresses, and these, being carried 
 above the building, supply the place of Pinnacles. The centre, with its 
 two side sections, is surmounted by a Parapet, with quatrefoil pierc- 
 ings. The intermediate spaces between the buttresses are filled with 
 handsome labelled windows. But the most striking feature in this 
 front is the grand Portico, having its three external sides open with 
 semicircular heads, and of sufficient projection as to afford the con- 
 venience of a sheltered carriage way. From the middle of the Terrace, 
 a descent of steps leads to the Park and Canal ; upon which, together 
 with the Pleasure Grounds more immediately contiguous to the House, 
 the late venerable Proprietor bestowed many embellishments. The 
 interior decorations are of the most splendid description, and the 
 apartments are adorned with a fine collection of Pictures. 
 
 The noble family of Ashburnham is of remote antiquity. The name 
 occurs in historical records as far back as the reign of Edward the 
 Confessor. Bertram de Esburnham was Sheriff of Surrey, Sussex, 
 and Kent, at the time of the Norman invasion ; and it is said that he 
 was put to death by the conqueror, for the spirited resistance he made 
 in the defence of Dover Castle, of which Harold had appointed him 
 governor. 
 1 
 
ASHBURNHAM PLACE, SUSSEX. 
 
 But that which more particularly tended to ennoble the name 
 of Ashburnham was the disinterested loyalty, and steady adherence 
 of this family to that unfortunate Prince, Charles I. John, who held 
 the appointment of Groom of the Bed-Chamber, faithfully attended 
 upon the person of the unhappy monarch, even to the close of his 
 eventful life. His conduct in one respect has been made the sub- 
 ject of censure, but without any just foundation. The surrender of 
 his sovereign into the hands of Colonel Hammond, after the flight 
 from Hampton Court to the Isle of Wight, should rather be ascribed to 
 an over-zealous anxiety for the safety of his master, than in any degree 
 savouring of treachery. Such services, it might naturally be supposed, 
 would, upon the Restoration, have immediately met with a suitable re- 
 ward. But we do not find that any distinguishing mark was conferred 
 upon the family, until the reign of William III., when the dignity of a 
 Baron was conferred upon his grandson. In 1730, the second son of 
 the grandson above-mentioned, was advanced to the dignity of Earl 
 of Ashburnham and Viscount St. Asaph. To him, in 1737, suc- 
 ceeded his son, and he dying in 1812, the family honours and estates 
 came to the present Earl. 
 
 The Parish Church stands within a short distance of Ashburnham 
 House, and contains some curious relics connected with the history of 
 this noble family. In the Vestry are preserved a shirt of Charles I. ; 
 his watch, and his white silk drawers. In the chancel are some mag- 
 nificent monuments of the Ashburnham Family. 
 
 George Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham, Viscount St. Asaph, 
 F. S. A., was born in December, 1760. In August, 1784, his Lordship 
 married Sophia, daughter of the first Marquis of Bath. This lady 
 dying, in April, 1795, the Earl married, secondly, Charlotte, daughter 
 of the Earl of Beverley. Bertram, Viscount St. Asaph, his Lordship's 
 eldest son by his second marriage, is heir-apparent to the titles and 
 estates. 
 
 Motto : — Le roi et Vested* 
 
ASHBURNHAM PLACE, SUSSEX. 
 
 list of pctttres at 
 
 ENTRANCE — HALL. 
 
 Elizabeth, Countess of Ashburnham, 
 daughter of John Crowley, Esq., of 
 Barking-Hall, Suffolk. 
 
 James Stuart, Duke of Richmond — Van- 
 dyke. 
 
 Theodosia, wife of John Crowley, Esq., 
 Mother of Elizabeth, Countess of Ash- 
 burnham. 
 Jdhn, Ear^of Ashburnham — Hoare. 
 View of Rome — Occhiali. 
 John, Lord Ashburnham. 
 View of Constantinople' — Occhiali. 
 Shipping — Vandervelde. 
 John Ashburnham, Groom of the Bed- 
 chamber to King Charles I. and II. — 
 D. My tens. 
 View of Rome — Occhiali. 
 William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the 
 Household to King Charles I. and II., 
 and Major-General of the Forces in the 
 West— Sir P. Lely. 
 View of Florence — Zocchi. 
 John, Earl of Ashburnham 
 View of Venice — Canoletto. 
 William, Lord Ashburnham. 
 View of Florence — Zocchi. 
 Bridget, Wife of John, first Lord Ash- 
 burnham, Daughter of Walter Vaughan, 
 Esq., of Porthammel, Brecon. 
 Mary, Duchess of Richmond, Daughter 
 of George, Duke of Buckingham— Van- 
 dyke. 
 
 Catharine, Wife of William, Lord Ash- 
 burnham, Daughter of Thomas Taylor, 
 Esq., of Clapham, Bedfordshire. 
 
 Charlotte, Countess of Ashburnham — 
 Hoppner. 
 
 Laudscape and Figures — Zuccarelli. 
 
 George, Earl of Ashburnham — Hoppner. 
 
 SMALL DINING ROOM. 
 
 Portrait of Frances, Wife of John Ash- 
 burnham, Daughter of William Hol- 
 land, Esq., of Westburton, Sussex — 
 Vandyke. 
 
 King Charles I. — Ditto. 
 
 Queen Henrietta Maria — Ditto. 
 
 Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, Daughter 
 of Charles I. 
 
 Duke of Ormond — Sir P. Lely. 
 
 King Charles I. 
 
 Prince Rupert — Sir P. Lely. 
 
 William, Duke of Hamilton. 
 
 John Ashburnham— William Ashburn- 
 ham. 
 
 AN TI -DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 Peter denying Christ — M.A. de Caravag- 
 gio. 
 
 Peter Repentant — Guido. 
 
 gjsftb-untljam place* 
 
 John Baptizing the Messiah — Albano. 
 St. Francis de Paula — Murillo. 
 Lucre tia — Guido. 
 Holy Family — Ludovico Caracci. 
 St. John writing the Apocalypse— F. 
 Mola. 
 
 Figures in a Gallery — Parmigiano. 
 Bacchus and Ariadne — School of Guido. 
 View of PonteMolle, near Rome — Claude. 
 Cascade of Tivoli — Gaspar Poussin. 
 View of the Bay of Naples — Claude. 
 Portrait of Himself— Murillo. 
 A Head — Rembrandt. 
 Land Storm, Story of Pyramus and Thisbe 
 
 — Nicolo Poussin. 
 A Head — Vandyke. 
 
 BOUDOIR. 
 
 Heads — Giorgione. 
 
 Sea Piece, a Brisk Gale— Vandervelde. 
 Girl with Pater-Noster — Schidone. 
 Madonna, Christ, and St. John— Simone 
 
 da Pesaro. 
 A Head — Holbein. 
 
 Presentation in the Temple— Guercino. 
 Baptism of our Saviour — Andreae Sacchi 
 Sophonisba Anguisciola — by Herself. 
 Christ and the Widow of Samaria— An- 
 drea del Sarto. 
 Sea Piece, a Calm — Vandervelde. 
 
 DRAWING ROOM. 
 St. John preaching in the Wilderness— 
 
 Salvator Rosa. 
 Landscape— Fr. Bolognese ; the Figures 
 
 by Agostino Caracci. 
 Philip Baptizing the Eunuch— S. Rosa. 
 Holy Family — Simone da Pesaro. 
 Heads — Parmigiano. 
 Madonna — Carlo Maratta. 
 Last Supper— Copy from Paul Veronese. 
 Sacrifice to Pan — Nicolo Poussin. 
 Madonna — Trevisani. 
 Martyrdom of St. Andrew— Carlo Dolci. 
 SleepingVenus and Satyrs— Filippo Lauri. 
 Herodias' Daughter with the Baptist's 
 
 Head — Carlo Dolci. 
 Angel Gabriel— Giuseppe Chiari. 
 Diana and Nymphs— Gia. Bassano.^ 
 Venus, Cupid, and Satyrs — F. Lauri. 
 Woman taken in Adultery — Luca Gior- 
 dano. 
 
 Triumph of Bacchus — -Nicolo Poussin. 
 Beggar Boy — Murillo. 
 Holy Family — Biscaino. 
 Flight into Egypt — Cigoli. 
 
 Do. — Sebastian Ricci. 
 
 Landscape — Gaspar Poussin. 
 Landscape, Story of Apollo and the Sybil 
 
 — Salvator Rosa. 
 Landscape — Gaspar Poussin. 
 
ASIIBURNH AM PLACE, SUSSEX. 
 
 DINING ROOM. 
 
 Fete du Village — D. Teniers. 
 
 Portraits of Ansloe, the Anabaptisl, and 
 
 his Wife — Rembrandt. 
 View of Nimeguen, Evening-— Cuyp. 
 Portrait of Himself— Vanderwerf. 
 A Head. 
 
 Landscape and Figures — Berg hem. 
 Wise Men's Offering- — Voelemburg. 
 Landscape, Frost — Schellinks. 
 
 Apollo and Cyparissus, 
 
 Stag- and Landscape, l^V*™- 
 
 r (J. Brueghel. 
 St. Anne watching- the Virgin — Rubens. 
 Portrait of Titian. 
 Fighting- Cocks — Snyder s. 
 Flower Piece — Verendael. 
 Village Musician — D. Teniers. 
 Fruit Piece — Snyders. 
 Landscape, Return from Hunting— Berg- 
 hem. 
 
 -Rigaud. 
 
 Nativity- 
 Landscape, 
 mans. 
 
 Allegorical Subject — Rubens. 
 
 Horses Watering- — Wouver- 
 
 BILLIARD ROOM. 
 
 Sea Piece — Bartolomeo. 
 
 Marriage of St. Catherine— Nic. Poussin. 
 
 View in Holland. 
 
 Landscape and Figures — Linvlebach. 
 
 Mathematician and Scholar — Rembrandt. 
 
 Louis XIV. and his Army before Dunkirk, 
 with Portraits of the King, the Duke of 
 Orleans, Prince de Conde and Marsha! 
 Turenne — De Honte. ^ 
 
 Landscape — Be Heusch. 
 
 Gipsey Fortune-teller — Cerquozzi. 
 
 Interior of a Church — De Witt. 
 
 Sea Piece — Vandervelde. 
 
 4 
 
Battle &f>hep, g>u8sen 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR GODFREY VASSAL WEBSTER, BART. 
 
 The ancient Abbey of Battle, a memorial of one of the most important 
 events recorded in English history, was built on a plain called Heath- 
 field, about seven miles from Hastings. The landing of William the 
 Norman on the Sussex coast, and the subsequent defeat and death of 
 Harold, the last Saxon King, in a pitched battle on this plain, are well 
 known historical facts. It would appear, however, that previous to the 
 engagement, William made a vow to found a Monastery in honour of 
 St. Martin, if victory crowned his arms with success. He was, there- 
 fore, no sooner established on the throne of England, than, in pursuance 
 of his vow, he built this Abbey, which he filled with Benedictine 
 Monks from Normandy, who were to pray for the souls of those who fell 
 ,in the encounter. The endowment was rich, consisting of the Manors 
 of Aldsiston, in Sussex; Lymsfield, in Surrey; How, in Essex; Crau- 
 mere, in Oxfordshire ; Briswalderton, in Berkshire ; together with all 
 the land a league round the house ; they had besides the Churches of 
 Radings and Colunton, in Devonshire, and St. Olave, in Exeter. 
 Many privileges and immunities were granted to the Monastery ; the 
 chief of which were — exemption from episcopal jurisdiction, treasure- 
 trove and free-warren ; it was also a place of sanctuary. The Abbot 
 .enjoyed the distinction of the mitre, and possessed the peculiar power of 
 pardoning any felon that he saw going to be executed. 
 
 Battle Abbey experienced the same fate as other monasteries in the 
 reign of Henry VIII. It was dissolved, and a grant of the site made to 
 Richard Gilmer, who soon afterwards pulled down the greater part of 
 the buildings and disposed of the materials. John Hammond, chosen 
 Abbot in 1529, had, upon surrendering the revenues of the house, a 
 pension of one hundred marks assigned to him for life ; and propor- 
 tionate stipends were granted to the other inmates. From the 
 foundation to the dissolution there had been a succession of thirty-one 
 Abbots. Gilmer afterwards sold the estate to Sir Anthony Browne, 
 whose descendants first thought of converting what remained of the old 
 Abbey into a convenient mansion-house ; this design was not, however, 
 fully accomplished until it became the property of Sir Thomas Webster, 
 ancestor of the present proprietor. 
 
BATTLE ABBEY, SUSSEX. 
 
 A large square Gothic building, embattled at the top, with a hand- 
 some octagon tower at each corner, constitutes the grand Entrance. 
 This gateway, with the adjoining buildings, is by some affirmed to be 
 part of the original edifice ; a fact, however, disputed by others, who 
 assign the middle of the fifteenth century as the period of its erection. 
 The front of the gateway faces the town, and is adorned with a series of 
 arches and neat pilasters. The remains of the Abbey occupy nearly 
 three sides of a large quadrangle ; the fourth, it is conjectured, having 
 been taken down when the opposite side was converted into a modern 
 habitation, in order to open a view of the country. The side of the 
 square occupied at the present time by the dwelling-house, has under- 
 gone the greatest alterations. The remaining side, namely, that oppo- 
 site to the gateway, consists of two low parallel walls, which formerly 
 supported a suite of chambers and terminated in handsome turrets ; 
 this was formerly part of another gate. On the outside of the house 
 appear nine elegant arches, which are the only remains of the old 
 Abbey church, and in all probability belonged to the inside of a 
 cloister. This portion of the building is included in our View. The 
 other ruins consist of a great hall or refectory, standing contiguous to 
 the Church ; but what creates the greatest interest, as being by far the 
 most beautiful part of the present remains, is a detached building now 
 used as a barn. It has twelve windows on one side, and six on the 
 other. Under the hall is a curious vaulted building in the Gothic style, 
 formed by crypts of free-stone, divided by elegant pillars and springing 
 arches. "With the exception of a heavy modern roof, this may be con- 
 sidered the most ancient part of the Abbey. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, the fifth Baronet, was born in October, 
 1789, and succeeded his father, the late Sir Godfrey, in June, 1800. 
 He has been twice chosen as Member of Parliament for Sussex, namely, 
 in 1812 and 1818. In August, 1814, Sir Godfrey married Charlotte, 
 the eldest daughter of Robert Adamson, Esq. A son born in April, 
 1819, is heir to the title and estates. 
 
 Sir Godfrey Webster, upon whom the dignity of a Baronet was con- 
 ferred in May, 1703, was a descendant from the Websters, who, about 
 the middle of the fourteenth century, were seated at Lockington, in the 
 County of York. 
 
 Arms : Azure, on a bendy argent, cottised, or between two denti- 
 tions rampant, ermine, a rose, gules, seeded and leafed, proper, 
 between two boars 1 heads, couped, sable. 
 
THE SEAT OF 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CECIL BISSHOPP, 
 
 LORD DE LA ZOUCHE. 
 
 The annexed Engraving presents a View of the Mansion in Parham 
 Park, the seat of Lord De la Zouche. The period of its erection is the 
 reign of Elizabeth ; and although the alterations which took place 
 about the year 1710, under Sir Cecil Bisshopp, the second baronet of 
 the name, were somewhat prejudicial to its ancient style, yet there are 
 few mansions in Sussex of equal consequence. The original edifice, of 
 rough stone, had an embattled parapet which gave it a castellated ap- 
 pearance ; this was, however, removed at the period above mentioned, 
 and some few touches of modernization introduced. The situation of 
 Parham House is both healthy and pleasant. It is sheltered from the 
 north-east by a park, in which are some very aged timber trees ; and 
 from a fine Terrace to the west commands a view of the chain of the 
 South Downs. The interior contains some noble apartments, the prin- 
 cipal of which is the Hall, 51 feet long, 26 wide, and 24 in height, with 
 a fine groined ceiling, containing the arms and quarterings of Queen 
 Elizabeth, in compartments. It receives light from large bay windows, 
 and is embellished with some curious family portraits and pictures 
 by Snyders, &c. In the upper story is a Gallery, 158 feet in length, 
 19 wide, and 24 high ; there is also a spacious Dining-room, being a 
 square, with a coved roof : these two apartments likewise contain por- 
 traits. 
 
 At the period of the Domesday survey, the Manor of Perham, as it 
 is there called, having demesne lands and a mill, was held by Robertus, 
 of Earl Roger de Montgomeri of Arundel. It afterwards passed into 
 the possession of the family of Tregoz, who held it until 1387, when an 
 heiress carried it with her in marriage to Edward St. John, of Herring- 
 ham. Subsequently the property became vested in the crown. In 
 1550, Robert Palmer, third son of Thomas Palmer, of Angmering, was* 
 seized of it, and by his son, Sir Thomas Palmer, the present Manor 
 House was finished. After this it was sold by the grandson of Sir 
 Thomas Palmer, in 1597, to Sir Thomas Bisshopp, Knight, of Henfield, 
 whose descendants have made it their chief residence. 
 
PARHAM PARK, SUSSEX. 
 
 Before the suppression of religious houses in the reign of Henry 
 VIII., the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter's, Westminster, possessed 
 six hides of land in Parham Parish, with certain privileges of exemp- 
 tion. This portion of land is at present included in the Manor of 
 Parham, which likewise extends over the whole parish. 
 
 Sir Thomas Bisshopp, the first Baronet, was so created in July, 1628. 
 He had for his second wife, Jane, daughter of Sir William Weston, 
 from whom descended Sir Cecil, the seventh Baronet, who married, in 
 1750, Susanna, eldest daughter of John Hedges, Esq. ; and by her, 
 who died in 1791, had Sir Cecil, the eighth Baronet and present Lord 
 De la Zouche. 
 
 Cecil Bisshopp, Baron De la Zouche of Harringworth, and a Baronet, 
 D.C.L. and F.R.S., was summoned to parliament by writ, July 27th, 
 1815, as Baron De la Zouche of Harringworth ; the claim to which 
 Barony had been heard before a committee of the House of Lords, 
 between 1804 and 1808, and adjudged to be in abeyance between him 
 and the descendants of Robert Long, Esq., as representatives of the 
 last Baron Zouche, who died without heir male in 1625, and whose 
 original writ of summons bears date in 1308, 2d Edward II. His Lord- 
 ship was born in December, 1753, and served in five parliaments as 
 M.P. for the Borough of New Shoreham. He married in July, 1782, 
 Harriet Anne, only child of William Southwell, of Frampton, in the 
 County of Gloucester, Esq., uncle to Edward Lord De Clifford, and has 
 issue two sons and three daughters. 
 
 Motto : — Pro Deo et ecclesid. 
 
 %i$X of the principal 
 
 Robert Palmer, the Founder of Parham 
 House. 
 
 Sir Thomas Bisshopp, Knight, sitting - . 
 Another of the same when a Baronet, in 
 
 1620, with his arms. 
 Sir Edward Bisshopp, whole length — 
 
 view of Parham House in the hack 
 
 gTound. 
 
 Lady Mary Tufton, wife of Sir Edward, 
 
 whole length. 
 William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, three 
 
 quarters length. 
 Queen Elizaheth, three quarters length, 
 
 in a rich white dress. 
 Lady Frances Cecil, wife of Nicholas, 
 
 Portrait* at Partjam* 
 
 first Earl of Thanet, and daughter of 
 
 Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, playing 
 
 with a monkey on a table. 
 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whole 
 
 length, a fine portrait. 
 Constable of Bourbon, slain at the siege 
 
 of Rome, in 1527. 
 Sir Robert Southwell, Secretary of State 
 
 for Ireland — Sir Peter Lely. 
 Lady Southwell — Sir Peter Lely. 
 Sir Cecil Bisshopp. 
 
 Charles Pagete, tempore Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 —Very curious. 
 Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
2Ungfort> Castle, Wtttehtre; 
 
 THE SEAT OF THE 
 RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PLEYDELL BOUVERIE, 
 
 EARL OF RADNOR. 
 
 Longford Castle is in the immediate vicinity of Salisbury, and 
 affords a singular specimen of whimsical architecture. According to an 
 inscription on the principal front, the mansion was erected in 1591, in the 
 reign of Queen Elizabeth, but bears very little resemblance to the edi- 
 fices of the same period. The ground plan of Longford Castle is in the 
 form of a triangle, having a large circular tower at each extreme angle, 
 measuring about thirty feet diameter in the inside. These towers give 
 to the building an appearance of great strength and durability, being 
 constructed with squared stones and flints, disposed with tasteful exac- 
 titude. The principal or north-west front is richly interspersed with 
 caryatides and other architectural ornaments. This part has undergone 
 several alterations, and retains very little of its original appearance. 
 The south-east front however, which is the part selected for the accom- 
 panying view, has not undergone any alteration. 
 
 Sir Thomas Gorges, who married the Dowager Marchioness of North- 
 ampton, one of the ladies of honour to Queen Elizabeth, was the 
 original planner of this singular edifice, but the whole premises have 
 been considerably altered within the last thirty years, during the 
 life-time of the late Earl. The situation, which is in a flat valley, on 
 the banks of the Avon, has been greatly improved, by raising the 
 ground round the house, and sinking it gradually as it recedes. The 
 late Earl likewise projected and began a new house on an enlarged 
 plan, but it remains at present incomplete. The interior contains a 
 court-yard of a triangular form. At the internal angles are circular 
 stair-cases leading to the different apartments. A choice collection of 
 original paintings is preserved at Longford Castle, one of which, a 
 View of the Town of Folkestone, in Kent, whence the Earl of Radnor 
 takes his title of Viscount, executed by Marlow, adorns the entrance- 
 hall on the south-west. 
 
 The vicinity of Salisbury cannot boast of any great variety of sce- 
 nery, yet there are some fine views from the grounds of Longford Castle. 
 That to the north-west, looking towards Salisbury, and including the 
 elegant spire of the venerable Cathedral, is very picturesque. On the 
 south appears the white tower of Downton church; and on the eastern 
 side, pasture and woodland are beautifully blended. 
 
 During the rage of civil contention, in the reign of Charles I., Long- 
 ford Castle was put in a state of defence, and held out for some time in 
 favour of the royal cause, but was finally compelled, together with most 
 of the strong holds in the neighbourhood, to yield to the pressure of cir- 
 cumstances, and surrender to the Parliamentary forces. Upon this, the 
 
LONGFORD CASTLE, WILTSHIRE. 
 
 noble mansion experienced all the injuries that a band of ruffians could 
 inflict. 
 
 William Pleydell Bouverie, Earl of Radnor, Viscount Folkestone, 
 Baron of Longford, Baron Pleydell Bouverie of Coleshill, in the County 
 of Berks, and a Baronet, was born in May, 1779, and succeeded his 
 father Jacob, second Earl of Radnor, in February, 1828. His Lord- 
 ship married, in 1800, Catherine Pelham Clinton, only child of Henry, 
 Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the second Duke of Newcastle, K. G., and 
 by her had two daughters. This lady dying in 1804, soon after the 
 birth of her second child, his Lordship married for his second wife, in 
 May, 1814, Anne, third daughter of the late Sir Henry Paulet St. John 
 Mildmay, Bart., and has had issue Jacob, Viscount Folkestone, born in 
 September, 1815 ; a daughter born in January, 1817, but who died in 
 1825 ; a son born in April, 1818 < a daughter born in April, 1819 ; and 
 another daughter born in December, 1825. The present Earl of Rad- 
 nor, when Viscount Folkestone, sat in the House of Commons from 1801 
 until his father's death, and occasionally took an active part in its pro- 
 ceedings during that period. 
 
 The family name was formerly written des Bouveries. Lawrence 
 des Bouveries, a native of Sainghin, near Lisle, in Flanders, being per- 
 secuted on account of his religion, came over to England about the year 
 1568, and settled at Canterbury. His son Edward was father of Sir 
 Edward des Bouveries, Knt., born in 1621, who acquired considerable 
 wealth by trading to the Levant. He died in 1694, and left the bulk of 
 his fortune to his eldest son, Sir William des Bouveries, who was created 
 a Baronet by Queen Anne, in February, 1714. He left two sons, Edward 
 and Jacob, the elder of whom succeeded to the title ; but he dying un- 
 married in 1736, his brother Jacob succeeded. 
 
 Sir Jacob, third Baronet, and first Viscount Folkestone, was created 
 a peer in June, 1747, by the titles of Baron Longford and Viscount 
 Folkestone. This nobleman died in February, 1761, and was succeeded 
 by his son William, first Earl, born in February, 1725, and created Earl 
 of Radnor in October, 1765. This nobleman married in January, 1748, 
 Harriet, only daughter and heiress to Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell, Bart.' 
 who left his estate to his grandson Jacob, second Earl, with remainder 
 to the issue male of William, the first Earl, and Jacob Viscount Folkes- 
 tone, his father, enjoining each person succeeding to the same to use 
 the name of Pleydell Bouverie. Jacob, the late Earl, was the only issue 
 by this marriage ; but William, Earl of Radnor, left several children by 
 his second lady, Rebecca, daughter of John Alleyne, of Barbadoes, 
 Esq. Jacob, second Earl and third Viscount, succeeded his father in 
 January, 1776, and married, in 1777, Anne, daughter and co-heiress of 
 Anthony Duncombe, Lord Feversham, by whom he had issue six chil- 
 dren, one daughter and five sons. William, the eldest son, is the 
 present Earl of Radnor.— Motto :—Patria cara, carior libertas 
 
THE SEAT OF 
 
 WILLIAM DANBY, ESQ. 
 
 is Place and Manor are part of the more extensive Manor and 
 Free-chace of Mashamshire, which has been possessed by the family of 
 Danby from 9 Hen. VIII. (1517), when, on the death of Geffrey, the 
 last Lord Scrope of Masharn, and Upsall, the youngest of the four Sons 
 of Thomas Lord Scrope, who died in 15 Edw. IV. (1475), the exten- 
 sive domains of that family, descended to the three Daughters, and at 
 length coheirs, of the same Thomas Lord Scrope, of whom Alice married 
 Sir James Strangeways ; Elizabeth, Ralph Fitz Randall, of Spenni- 
 thorne ; and Margery, Sir Christopher Danby. The partition of the 
 Estates in the Northern Counties did not, however, take place until 12 
 Hen. VIII. (1520), when, among other Estates, the Manor of Masharn 
 and Mashamshire, with all lands and appurtenances, were allotted to 
 Dame Margery Danby and her heirs. 
 
 Sir Christopher Danby, her husband, was son of Sir James, and 
 grandson of Sir Robert Danby, of Thorpe Perrow, Knt., Chief 
 Justice of the Court of King's Bench, who died 11 Edw. IV. (1472), 
 and who was one of the younger sons of Thomas Danby, of Danby- 
 super-wiske, by Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Tanfield, Knt. This 
 Thomas Danby, was the ninth in lineal descent, from Roger Stringent, 
 otherwise Danby, Lord of Danby-super-wiske, in the time of the Con- 
 queror. The first of the family mentioned in the Pedigree, is Edward 
 Stringent, a soldier of fortune, who came over with William, who gave 
 him for wife Armatrude, daughter of John, Lord of Great, and Little 
 Danby. 
 1 
 
SWINTON PARK, YORKSHIRE. 
 
 Dame Margery left a son, Sir Christopher Danby, Knt., who, when 
 very young, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Nevill, Lord 
 Latimer, in 6 Hen. VIII. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir 
 Thomas Danby, Knt., who married the Lady Mary, daughter of Ralph, 
 Earl of Westmoreland, and left a son, Thomas Danby, who married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse. 
 In 9 Eliz., their only child, Christopher Danby, married Frances Par- 
 ker, daughter of Edward, Lord Morley and Monteagle, by whom he 
 had a son,' Sir Thomas Danby, Knt., who, in 6 Car. I., married 
 Catherine, daughter of his guardian, Sir Christopher Wandesford, Knt, 
 Master of the Rolls, and afterward Lord Deputy of Ireland. 
 
 Sir Thomas, in 8 Car. I., granted a deputation to Francis Armytag'e, 
 Esq., for life, of the office of Bow-bearer of his Free-chace in Masham- 
 shire, with all the fees and emoluments thereof. — In 1638, he was High 
 Sheriff of the County of York. In 1635, he had been appointed by his 
 cousin-german, Lord Wentworth, (afterward created Earl of Strafford) , 
 then Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, one of his Deputy-Lieutenants. — 
 For his honourable adherence in Parliament and elsewhere, to this un- 
 fortunate and cruelly persecuted nobleman, he was one of those pointed 
 out to the fury of the populace as Straffordians. He was zealously 
 attached to the Royal Cause during the civil wars, and had the com- 
 mand of a regiment. — Afterward during the supremacy of the Round- 
 heads, he was long detained a prisoner, and obliged to pay a fine of 
 5,600/. to procure his freedom, and the restoration of his estates. 
 
 Thomas, the son of this Sir Thomas, married Margaret, co-heir to her 
 cousin Ralph, Lord Eure, and left two sons ; on the death of the younger 
 of whom, a minor, in 1683, Mashamshire with the other large estates 
 passed to his uncle, Christopher Danby, (second son of Sir Thomas,) 
 who in that year conveyed Mashamshire, and all the other estates of 
 the family to Sir Abstrupus Danby, Knt., his son by Anne, niece of 
 John, Lord Colepepper. — Sir Abstrupus Danby, in 1688, purchased 
 the third of the manor of Swinton, with the mansion-house, from 
 his relative, Mr. Norton, whose ancestor married Anne, daughter of 
 Sir George Wandesford, and probably thereby became possessed of it, 
 as prior to the wardship of Sir Thomas Danby, and the connexion 
 between the families of Danby and Wandesford, the entirety of Swinton 
 appears to have been attached to the Danby estates. Sir Abstrupus 
 Danby left a son, Abstrupus Danby, who was father of William 
 Danby. The latter married Mary, daughter of Gilbert Affleck, of 
 Dalham, in Suffolk, and had issue, one son, William, the present Lord 
 of Mashamshire, and possessor of Swinton, who was Sheriff of York- 
 shire in 1784 ; and two daughters, Mary, wife of William, Earl Har- 
 court, and Elizabeth, who died unmarried. 
 
 The Residence of the family had formerly been on other parts of this 
 2 
 
SWINTON PARK, YORKSHIRE. 
 
 extensive Domain, also at Thorpe Perrow, near Bedale, an Estate sold 
 by Sir Abstrupus Danby, who resided chiefly at Far nley Hall, near 
 Leeds, a large possession acquired by the marriage of Sir James 
 Danby, with Agnes, daughter and heir of John Langton, Lord of 
 Farnley, Langton, and other Lordships since sold. 
 
 A small portion only, of the old mansion at Swinton now remains, the 
 present possessor having considerably enlarged and improved it by the 
 addition of an extensive wing towards the North, and a fine suite of 
 Rooms facing the South, terminating in a Museum, the depositary of a 
 valuable collection of Minerals, Fossils, and other productions of natural 
 history. The centre of this suite is occupied by the drawing-room, a 
 noble apartment, built about thirty years since, under the directions 
 of James Wyatt, Esq., and John Foss, Esq. of Richmond. Mr. Danby 
 has also, within a few years, erected a massive Tower toward the East, 
 and other castellated additions in the Norman style, from the designs 
 of Robert Lugar, Esq., which contain, together with numerous family 
 rooms, an elegant Library, forty-two feet in length, and , a spacious 
 Entrance Hall. A Western Tower, lately added, completes the coup- 
 d'ceil of the South front. Among the internal decorations will be 
 found some good Pictures by Rubens, Salvator Rosa, Guercino, 
 Snyders, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others of known celebrity, and a 
 valuable collection of books. The buildings are all of a fine yellowish 
 brown stone, raised in quarries, on the Estate. 
 
 Swinton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, is situated about ten miles 
 from Ripon, seven from Bedale, and fourteen from Richmond, in the 
 most richly-wooded, and perhaps most beautiful part of the County, 
 near the neat market town of Masham, almost the whole of which is 
 an appendage to the property. The Town of Masham stands on a bold 
 bank overlooking the Eure, and the tall Spire of the parish Church 
 is a striking feature in the surrounding landscape. 
 
 It is difficult, by description, to do justice to the beauties which are 
 developed as the visitor wanders through the ever-varying and en- 
 chanting scenery of the Park and Grounds belonging to this delightful 
 residence. Art has been here so judiciously brought to the assistance 
 of, and is so blended with, Nature, that it can no where be detected as 
 intrusive. The verdant banks of the Home Lake, skirted at intervals with 
 evergreens, are admirably contrasted with the wilder scenery which 
 bursts on the eye on approaching the Great Lake, or the more secluded 
 and romantic forest-scenery of the Storth-Water. A noble Bridge, seventy 
 feet in height, formed of three pointed arches, has, within a few years, 
 been thrown across the ravine of Quarry Gill, which, with the roaring 
 Cataract of the Falls of the Eller, contribute much to the beauties of 
 the drive through the Domain. The views of the neighbouring 
 country are rich and pleasingly varied, extending from the eastern to 
 3 
 
\ 
 
 SWINTON PARK, YORKSHIRE. 
 
 the western moor-lands of the Vale of York, and from the Wolds of the 
 East Riding to the Durham Hills. 
 
 Mashamshire includes the Villages of Healey, Fearby, Swinton, Ilton, 
 Colsterdale, Ellingtons Ambo, and Ellingstring. 
 
 The south aisle of the Church belongs to the Barony of Masham, 
 and is the burial place of the Danbys of Swinton. Of this family there 
 is a sumptuous mural Monument at the east end, in memory of Abstru- 
 pus Danby, last mentioned by us. 
 
 The Barony of Scrope of Upsall, and Masham is in abeyance be- 
 tween the families of Wyville and Danby, as lineal heirs of Elizabeth 
 Fitz Randall, and Margery Danby, the two co-heirs who left issue, of 
 Thomas, Lord Scrope. 
 
 Danby bears for Arms : — Argent, three Chevronels interlaced in 
 base, sable ; on a chief of the second, three Mullets, of the first. 
 
 Crest: — A crab proper. 
 
 \We are indebted to Charles Tucker, Esq., for this account of the 
 family of Danby ; from whose Sketch, also, our Drawing has been 
 made.] 
 
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Wilton Castle, iorltsftlre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR JOHN LOWTHER, BART., M. P. 
 
 lton Castle, the ancient baronial Seat of the Bulmers, stands in 
 that part of the North Riding of Yorkshire called Cleveland. The 
 Bulmers were a family of great consideration, and had large posses- 
 sions in the counties of York and Durham, but at what particular 
 period they became first seated at Wilton, we have no information. 
 In the fourth year of Edward II., Ralph de Bulmer obtained a charter 
 in all his demesne lands here, and in the first of Edward III., he had 
 summons to parliament amongst the barons. In the fourth of Edward 
 III., he had special licence to make a Castle of his Manor-house at 
 Wilton ; and was, in the same year, constituted Sheriff of Yorkshire, 
 and Governor of York Castle. Wilton continued in the family for many 
 generations, till Sir John Bulmer, Kt., the last possessor of that family, 
 engaging in the Northern Insurrection, called the Pilgrimage of 
 Grace, was attainted for High Treason, (28 Henry VIII.) when this 
 and other estates were forfeited to the crown. Wilton was afterwards 
 granted, in the reign of Philip and Mary, to Sir Thomas Cornwallis, 
 and his wife in tail, and confirmed in the third year of James I. to his 
 son, Sir William Cornwallis, in fee; whose descendant, Lord Cornwallis, 
 sold the estate here to Sir Stephen Fox, afterwards Earl of Ilchester, of 
 whom it was purchased by the trustees, under the will of Robert Low- 
 ther, Esq., of Maul's Meburn, for the benefit of his son, the late Earl 
 of Lonsdale, then an infant, and by him bequeathed to the present 
 possessor, Sir John Lowther, of Swillington, Bart. (For a View of 
 Swillington, see Vol. I, of this Work, Second Series.) 
 
 The present building, raised on the site, and out of the ruins of the 
 ancient Castle, was constructed after the designs of R. Smirke, Esq., 
 according to the style of architecture which prevailed in the reign of 
 Elizabeth ; but has since received great additions and alterations 
 under the direction of the proprietor himself, and now assumes a 
 castellated form much in unison with the character of the place and the 
 surrounding country. Plate I. The north front extends in line upwards 
 of 230 feet. The Castle contains many good and commodious apartments. 
 A morning room, 46 feet in length, commands views distinguished by 
 every variety of prospect, bounded on the south by rising grounds, 
 
WILTON CASTLE, YORKSHIRE. 
 
 cloathed with timber ; on the east by the sea; and to the north-west, the 
 eye has an unlimited range over the Counties of Durham and York, 
 intersected, by the River Tees, which, meandering through the grazing 
 districts of those counties, on its approach to the sea, expands itself 
 into a fine extensive bay. Plate II. is a south-west view. 
 
 At the entrance of the grounds from Guisborough, is an appropriate 
 Lodge, and a road of more than two miles in length, leads to the Castle, 
 chiefly through woods abounding with picturesque and romantic 
 scenery. 
 
 Wilton was an ancient Chapelry, within the parish of Kirk-Leatham ; 
 but the chapel seems not to have been dependant on that church. It 
 was dedicated to, St. Cuthbert, and being granted and appropriated to 
 the Priory of Guisborough, at the dissolution of the monastery, it be- 
 came a perpetual curacy, endowed with small tithes. Sir John Lowther 
 is the present Patron ; the right of nomination to the chapel being an 
 appendage to the manor. The village, almost entirely rebuilt by the 
 present proprietor, is small, seated on the northern declivity of a hill, 
 about three miles from the Market-town of Guisborough. It consists of 
 one township, comprehending the Manors of Lazenby and Lackenby. 
 The prospect from the upper part of the village is very extensive ; 
 the town of Hartlepool in a prominent position, with the bold figure of 
 its Church, is a striking object. 
 
 Sir John Lowther is the only brother of the Right Honourable Wil- 
 liam Earl of Lonsdale, and was created a Baronet in September, 1824. 
 
 Arms, — Or, six annulets, sable, a crescent for difference. 
 
 Motto, — " Magistratus indicat virum." 
 
 *** Our Views of this Mansion, have been copied by permission of 
 the proprietor, from two beautiful paintings, by George 
 Arnald, Esq., A.R.J. 
 
©omimstle, dftfeslnre; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS STUART, 
 
 EARL OF MORAY. 
 
 Donibristle is situated five miles from North Queensferry, close to 
 the Firth of Forth, the large arm of the sea which separates Fifeshire 
 from the shores of the Lothians. The House has been erected at vari- 
 ous periods : the oldest part was the residence of the Abbots of the 
 neighbouring priory of St. Colme, situated on Inch Colme, now in the 
 possession of this noble family, which, with its beautiful ecclesiastical 
 ruins, forms a fine object from Donibristle. The House was modernized, 
 and very much improved by the late Earl of Moray, and is a most con- 
 venient family residence, with ample accommodations of every descrip- 
 tion : in its appearance perfectly plain, and perhaps realizing less an idea 
 of feudal magnificence, than it possessed before the extensive alterations 
 which were made about half a century ago. The large Drawing-room 
 may be particularly mentioned, as an apartment of the most elegant de- 
 scription and correct proportions, about fifty feet in length and thirty 
 high ; commanding a delightful prospect of the Firth, ever enlivened by 
 the vessels that crowd its surface; and during stormy weather exhibit- 
 ing many scenes of sublimity and grandeur. In the Dining-room, there 
 is a fine full length portrait by Vandyck of King Charles I. with the 
 Duke of Hamilton holding his horse. There are likewise portraits of 
 former Earls of Moray, and other connexions of this noble family. 
 
 The Park of Donibristle is of great extent, and finely wooded: the sur- 
 face is undulating and much varied, and the finest views of the Firth and 
 surrounding country are obtained from different stations in the Grounds. 
 The romantic metropolis of Scotland, seen on the opposite side of the 
 Firth, at the distance of eight or nine miles, is a most splendid object, 
 from its bold and commanding situation, and beautiful irregularity of 
 outline ; the whiteness of the new parts of the town, contrasted with the 
 dark and antique character of the old, the latter in general greatly ob- 
 scured by smoke, and the venerable Castle, towering over the lower 
 buildings, forms an unrivalled termination of the prospect to the south- 
 east; while the lofty ridge of the Pentland Hills forms a fine background 
 to the rich shores of Mid Lothian, which lie more directly opposite to 
 Donibristle. The approach from the east gate, at Aberdour, is about 
 three miles in length; part of it along a fine strait avenue of aged beech 
 trees : it likewise passes through an interesting old garden at Dalgety, 
 formerly a seat of the family of Tweeddale. The whole line of approach 
 commands delightful and varied views of the richly wooded shores of 
 the Forth: the Park of Dalmeny, belonging to the Earl of Rosebery, on 
 
DON1BRISTLE, F1JFESHIRE. 
 
 the opposite side, contributes much to the embellishment of the prospect; 
 while the remoter domains of Dundas and Hopetoun adorn the distance 
 with their bold and wooded banks. 
 
 The title of Earl of Moray, formerly in the houses of Randolph and 
 Dunbar, was granted, in ]561, by Queen Mary to her brother, the Re- 
 gent of Scotland, who was the first Earl of the present family of Stuart. 
 That gallant and unfortunate nobleman was assassinated at Linlithgow, by 
 Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, in 1570, a fact well known to the readers 
 of Scottish history, and which has employed the talents of one of our 
 greatest poets in the beautiful ballad of Cadyow. The Earl left two 
 daughters, the eldest of whom, Lady Elizabeth, married Lord Doune, 
 (who became second Earl of Moray) descended in the male line from 
 Robert, Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland, third son of King Robert 
 II. James, second Earl of Moray, generally known by the appellation 
 ot the « Bonny Earl," died by a fate equally tragical with that of the Re- 
 gent his father in law. An hereditary feud existed between the families 
 or Huntly and Moray; and the Earl of Huntly, having, in 1592, ob- 
 tained a commission from the king to pursue Bothwell and his associ- 
 ates mvested the House of Donibristle, and set it on fire, on the night 
 ot the 7th of February of that year, on the pretence of Lord Moray's 
 having been engaged with Bothwell. Of this event Birrel says, « Dun* 
 bar Sheriff of Moray, who was in the house at the time, said to'the Earl 
 Ot Moray, < I will go out at the gate before your Lordship, and you shall 
 go out after me.' Dunbar therefore came out, and ran desperately on 
 Huntly s men, by whom he was presently slain. During this the Earl 
 ot Moray came out, and retreated among the rocks on the sea-side ; but 
 unfortunately, his knapscull tippet, whereon was a silk string, had taken 
 lire, which betrayed him to his enemies in the darkness of the night ; him- 
 selt not knowing the same, they came down on him, on a sudden, and 
 cruelly murdered him. He was a young man of the most promising vir- 
 tues, and the very darling of the people." 
 
 The present, and eleventh Earl of Moray, of the family of Stuart, is 
 lmeally descended, in the direct line of male succession, from the above 
 marriage of the Regent's daughter, Lady Elizabeth. His father, Francis, 
 tenth Earl, married the Honourable Jane Gray, daughter of John, twelfth 
 Lord Gray The Earl of Moray is Lord Lieutenant of the county of 
 Elgin or Moray, where his seat of Darnaway Castle is situated. His 
 Lordship married, first, in 1795, Lucy, second daughter of General 
 Scott, of Balcomie, M. P. (sister of the Duchess of Portland and Mm. 
 Canning) by whom he has two sons, Francis, Viscount Doune, and th« 
 
 maTd t 1 StUart ' M ' R f ° r NeW P° rt ' Hants ' His Lordship 
 S I L S v C °! ; ^ m 1801 > his C0Usin ' Mar S aret Jane > eldest daughter 
 o Sir Pfolip Ainshe, of Pilton, by whom he has the Honourable James 
 
 Geo t rf ? f m ! he 85th Fe S iment of f00t ' Ar <*ibald, Charles, and 
 George ; and Ladies Jane, Margaret Jane, Anne, and Louisa, 
 
THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR CHAS. MACDONALD LOCKHART, BART. 
 
 Lee Place is situated in the rich and romantic district of Clydesdale, 
 not far from the town of Lanark. The vale of the Clyde has long been 
 remarkable for its beauty, and the variety of interesting- objects to be 
 seen in the neighbourhood. The Mouse, a very romantic stream, falls 
 into the Clyde a little below Lanark, between Lee and that town. The 
 celebrated rocks, called the Cartland Craigs, are upon this river; and 
 over it, at that spot, a bridge has recently been erected from a design by 
 Mr. Telford. The height from the bed of the river to the parapet, is one 
 hundred and twenty-five feet ; the rocks, however, are of much greater 
 elevation, and may be termed the grandest to be seen in this country. 
 
 The alterations at Lee Place, which give it a castellated appearance, 
 were commenced by Sir Charles Lockhart, Bart, a few years ago, from 
 the designs of Mr. Gillespie Graham, an architect who has the merit of 
 introducing the Gothic style into this country, in a greater degree of pu- 
 rity and perfection than had previously been exhibited. The Hall, in the 
 centre of the building, rises to the full height of the tower, and is lighted 
 by twelve windows. The adjoining suite of the principal rooms is ex- 
 tremely handsome, and they are all spacious and well proportioned. 
 
 The family of Lockhart, of Lee, may justly be ranked amongst the most 
 ancient in the northern part of Great Britain, and has long held exten- 
 sive property in the county of Lanark, where many of its representatives 
 have occupied important official situations. The late Sir Alexander 
 Macdonald Lockhart, married Jane, daughter of Daniel Macneill, Esq., 
 and on his death was succeeded by Sir Charles, his eldest son, the pre- 
 sent Baronet. 
 
TOtsfjato, £anarksfjtte; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT MONTGOMERY HAMILTON, 
 
 LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON. 
 
 This Mansion has been recently enlarged and beautified by Lord Bel- 
 haven, under the direction of Mr. Gillespie. The style of the architec- 
 ture is the castellated, and the whole is a very successful alteration of 
 an ancient building. The Front has an extremely handsome appearance ; 
 the outline being much varied by the different heights and projections 
 of the towers and embattled walls. The apartments are suitable to the 
 extent of the house ; and some of them are particularly worthy of ex- 
 amination, for their beauty and proportions. There are several excellent 
 family portraits preserved at Wishaw ; one of Sir James Balfour, Lord 
 Lyon, King of Arms in the reign of King Charles I., by Vandyck, is 
 reckoned a very valuable painting. There is also a picture of John, 
 Lord Belhaven^ who, in the reign of Queen Anne, made so strenuous 
 an opposition to the treaty of Union. 
 
 The territorial possessions of this family, in the county of Lanark, are 
 very ancient. The Peerage of Belhaven and Stenton was conferred on 
 Sir John Hamilton, of Biel, in the county of Haddington, by Charles J., 
 in 1647. The patent was surrendered to the Second Charles, in 1695, 
 and regranted by his Majesty, with further remainders. The father 
 of the present Lord Belhaven succeeded to the title in the year 1799, 
 by a decree of the House of Lords. He died at this seat, 29th October, 
 1814. By Penelope, daughter of Ronald Macdonald, Esq., of Clan- 
 ronald, he left Robert Montgomery Hamilton, eighth Lord Belhaven, 
 born in 1793 : he married, in 1816, Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Campbell, 
 of Shawfield, maternally descended from the family of Belhaven. 
 
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©alkettfc palate, j1fltti=fLotJ)tatt ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 HIS GRACE WALTER FRANCIS MONTAGU SCOTT DOUGLAS, 
 
 DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY, &c. 
 
 The Palace of Dalkeith is a magnificent structure. It stands on a 
 knoll, overlooking the confluence of the north and south branches of the 
 River Esk. The approach to the house and the banks of the River 
 are adorned with plantations. For many ages, antecedent to the erec- 
 tion of the present edifice, there had stood on this spot a castle of 
 considerable strength, the residence of the family of Morton. Dalkeith 
 Palace, as represented in the annexed Engraving, was built about the 
 beginning of the last century, by Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch, widow 
 of the uufortunate James, Duke of Monmouth, natural son of Charles II. 
 It consists of a front adorned with columns of the Corinthian order, and a 
 double wing at each end. The great Court between the Palace and the 
 Park is very spacious, environed with balustrades of iron, between pillars 
 of freestone. And from the gate of the Court there is an Avenue through 
 the Park, directly south, of a mile long ; and round the Palace a Terrace, 
 which, on the north, where the front of the Palace is 120 feet wide, 
 overlooks a precipice to the River as at Windsor. On the east side 
 is a natural Amphitheatre, in the bottom of which is a flower garden, 
 and round the side evergreen slopes. You enter the Palace by a great 
 Hall paved with stone. To the left of the Hall, is the great Staircase 
 supported by Pillars of Marble, and every step curiously inlaid with 
 walnut-tree wood. At the top of the staircase is a noble room, 40 feet 
 long, and 30 high and broad. There is also a great room to the north 
 of the Hall. The walls of most of the rooms are adorned with many 
 very valuable family Portraits. The offices join the Town of Dalkeith, 
 which is a royal burgh, large and well built. 
 
 The estate of Dalkeith has been held by the Buccleuch family ever 
 since the year 1642. The Park, which abounds in woods, particularly 
 antique oaks, consists of about 800 Scotch acres, and is surrounded by 
 a high wall. The Rivers North and South Esk run through the Park, 
 and unite their streams about half a mile below the House. His present 
 
DALKEITH PALACE, MID-LOTHIAN. 
 
 Majesty George IV. took up his residence at Dalkeith Palace upon his 
 visit to Scotland. 
 
 The noble family of Scott is very ancient, and was of great import- 
 ance on the borders. The first of the family ennobled was in the reign 
 of James VI., to recompense his signal merit under Maurice, Prince 
 of Orange, in 1606. The son of this nobleman, named Walter, was 
 created Earl of Buccleuch in 1619. Walter, the second Earl, who died 
 in 1651, left two daughters, Mary and Anne. Mary dying without 
 issue, the title of Countess of Buccleuch devolved on her only sister, 
 Anne, afterwards married to James, Duke of Monmouth, and who 
 thereupon adopted the surname of Scott. In 1673, the Duke and 
 Duchess were created Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, Baron and 
 Baroness Whitechurch and Eskdale, with remainder to the heirs of their 
 bodies. Upon the Duke's unfortunate decease, the English honours 
 became forfeited, but the attainder did not affect the peerages enjoyed 
 by the Duchess in her own right, being Duchess of Buccleuch by crea- 
 tion, and Countess of Buccleuch by descent from her ancestor, the first 
 Earl. Upon her death in February, 1732, she was succeeded in her 
 titles, by her grandson Francis, the second Duke, who, dying in April, 
 1751, was succeeded by his grandson Henry, the third Duke. Upon 
 the death of the Duke of Queensberry, without issue, in 1810, Henry 
 Duke of Buccleuch, added to his other titles, Duke of Queensberry, 
 Marquess of Dumfrieshire, Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar, Viscount 
 Nith, Thortholwold and Ross, Lord Douglas, of Kinmont, Middlebri, 
 and Dornock, pursuant to a special limitation in a patent and letters of 
 entail consequent thereupon. Henry, the third Duke, died in January, 
 1812, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles William Henry, 
 who was born in May, 1774, and who, in March, 1795, married Harriet 
 Catharine Townshend, youngest daughter of Thomas, first Viscount 
 Sydney, and by her, who died in August, 1814, had issue three sons and 
 six daughters. His grace died at Lisbon, in April, 1819, and was 
 succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Walter Francis, the present and 
 fifth Duke of Buccleuch ; and third Duke of Buccleuch and Queens- 
 berry. 
 
 Motto ;—Amo. 
 
jftngasfe Castle, $ertf)0i)tre ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR PATRICK MURRAY THREIPLAND, BART. 
 
 Fingask Castle is beautifully situated on what are called the Braes 
 of the Carse, commanding an extensive prospect over the rich and 
 fertile vale of the Carse of Gowrie, which here, surrounded by culti- 
 vated hills, opens in one vast amphitheatre, with the river Tay rolling 
 through it for upwards of fourteen miles, till it is lost to the sight in the 
 Bay of St. Andrews'. 
 
 This forms one of the grandest views of which the place can boast ; 
 as with the naked eye may be distinctly seen the town of Dundee, and 
 the adjacent country of many miles, bounded in the distance by the sea 
 and the sloping Sidla Hills. 
 
 Besides these objects, which partake so much of the sublime, there 
 are others of the most genuine and native beauty, which, from the 
 peculiar happiness of the situation, are thrown together in fine contrast. 
 The grounds are tastefully laid out with extensive walks and rides. 
 
 In the Shrubberies the Arbutus flowers and fruits in perfection ; and 
 the Passiflora, or Passion-flower, grows luxuriant in the open air. 
 
 The Castle, which is built on the brink of a deep glen amidst wooded 
 eminences, in one part, bears as old a date as 1 194. The View given in 
 our Plate exhibits two sides of this ancient Mansion, with the tasteful 
 alternation of square and pointed windows. The roof is surrounded by 
 an embrasured parapet. But the most curious external feature of this 
 building, is the principal entrance door, strongly studded with large 
 nails ; the upper part having a cymatic form. An old coat of arms, rudely 
 cut in stone, is placed over this door. The Castle was used as a place 
 of strength, and stood a siege, in 1642, during the civil war, in Oliver 
 Cromwell's time ; and as such, commanded one of the passes from the 
 low grounds to the country above. 
 
 Here the Chevalier St. George, the son of James II., slept in 
 January, 1716, on his way from Glammis to Scone, where he was pro- 
 
FINGASK CASTLE, PERTHSHIRE. 
 
 claimed King ; and, in consequence of the Threipland family's attach- 
 ment then, and afterwards, to the cause of the unfortunate House of 
 Stuart, the Castle was completely ransacked, in 1746, by the Govern- 
 ment troops, who demolished its fortalices, and razed a greater portion 
 of the building to the ground. 
 
 There are several valuable original Portraits of the Stuart Family, 
 with other Paintings, at Fiiigask Castle. 
 
 Arms: — Quarterly, 1st argent, three daggers in pale gules, on a 
 chief azure, as many mullets of the field, for Threipland of Fingask. 
 2d. Azure, a bezant betwixt three stars argent, for Murray of Penny- 
 land. 3d. Argent, a Lion passant azure, armed and languid gules, 
 for Budge of Toftingall. 
 
 Crests : — On the dexter side, a Hand gules holding a dagger proper 
 — Motto : Stricta, parata, neci. On the sinister side, on a Forse, a 
 Hart's head proper — Motto : Animis et fato. 
 
 Supporters : — A Lion guardant proper ; an Eagle with wings erect 
 proper. 
 
^tlgmston, lerthsfttre % 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN GRANT, ESQ. 
 
 Kilgraston is situated in the valley of Statherne, not far from the 
 confluence of the rivers Erne and Tay, and five miles from the city of 
 Perth. ' The surrounding country is remarkable for its extreme fertility, 
 and beauty of scenery, the whole valley being filled with the seats and 
 parks of the principal nobility and gentry of the country. The Mansion 
 is pleasantly situated in a well wooded park of considerable extent, sur- 
 rounded by bold and picturesque hills. The architecture of Kilgraston, 
 which is Grecian, was chiefly designed by the late Francis Grant, 
 Esq., the father of the present proprietor, and the front elevation is cor- 
 rectly represented in the plate. The public rooms, which are on the first 
 floor, looking towards the south and west, form a suite of five apart- 
 ments, entered from a spacious Saloon, round the upper part of which is 
 a Gallery, lighted by a cupola, forming the communication to the Bed- 
 rooms. The Dining-room and family apartments are likewise on the 
 first floor. 
 
 The home grounds at Kilgraston are laid out in beautiful shrubberies 
 and flower gardens, kept in the best order, and the rides on the neigh- 
 bouring heights command most extensive and beautiful views. The 
 much frequented watering place of Pitcaithly is situated on this estate, 
 at the distance of about a mile from the house. 
 
 The family of Grant of Kilgraston is originally of Glenlochy, in 
 Strathspay, which was their ancient residence. This estate was pur- 
 chased by John Grant, Esq., about the middle of the 17th century. The 
 Earl of Seafield, formerly Sir Lewis Grant, of Grant (who succeeded to 
 the Earldom in right of his Grandmother, Lady Margaret Ogilvie) is 
 the undoubted head of this most ancient and distinguished name. John 
 Grant, Esq. married a sister of Sir William M'Leod Bannatyne, Ba- 
 ronet, a Judge of the Court of Session, and, dying without issue, was 
 succeeded in his estates by his brother, the late Francis Grant, Esq., 
 who married Ann, daughter of the late Robert Oliphant, Esq., of 
 Rossie in the county of Perth. John Grant, Esq., the present pro- 
 prietor, eldest son of the preceding marriage, married, in 1820, the 
 Honourable Margaret Gray, second daughter of Francis, 15th Lord 
 
KILGRASTON, PERTHSHIRE. 
 
 Gray, who died in 1821, leaving an only daughter. Mr. Grant mar- 
 ried, secondly, in 1828, the Lady Lucy Bruce, third daughter of the 
 Earl of Elgin and Kincardine. 
 
 There is at Kilgraston an excellent Collection of Pictures, by the best 
 ancient masters, of which the following are the principal :•— 
 
 LARGE DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 Portrait of a Woman — Domenichino 
 Feti. 
 
 Legend of St. Louis— Guercino di Cento. 
 Portrait of Charlotte de la Tremouille, 
 
 Countess of Derby — Vandyck. 
 Head of St. Peter— Spagnoletto. 
 Diana and Actaeon — Aless. Veronese. 
 Manoah's Sacrifice— Rembrandt. 
 Landscape, Repose — Salvator Rosa. 
 Landscape, and Figures on Horseback — 
 
 Cuyp. 
 
 Roman Ruins — Gosoljt. 
 
 Holy Family — Andrea del Sarto. 
 
 A Man Singing — Gerardo della Notti. 
 
 Landscape, Storm— Salvator Rosa. 
 
 Battle-piece — Bourgognone. 
 
 Christ before Pontius Pilate — Gerardo 
 
 della Notti. 
 Holy Mother— Leonardo da Vinci. 
 Crowning with Thorns— Schedoni. 
 Landscape with Cattle— Rosa di Tivnli. 
 Head of the Saviour — Leonardo da Vinci. 
 Portrait of a Child— Vander Helsdt. 
 
 Portrait of a Muleteer — Murillo. 
 Landscape and Cattle— Rosa di TivolL 
 
 SMALL DRAWING ROOM. 
 
 Surgeon's Shop, with Figures— Gerard 
 Douui. 
 
 Landscape with Ruins and Cattle— Karl 
 
 du Jar din 
 Garden of Beauties — P. P. Rubens. 
 Landscape and Figures — Poelemberg. 
 Battle-piece— Vander Meulen. 
 Portrait of a Boy selling Figs— Velasquez. 
 Scenesin Dutch Towns — Roger de Bruges. 
 Landscape with Sheep— Morland. ° 
 Magdalene — Jacob More. 
 Circumcision — Bassano. 
 Figure of Charity— Carlo Cignani. 
 Roman Marriage— Houbraken. 
 Portrait of the late Duke of York, when a 
 
 Young Man — Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 Portrait of King James I. of England— 
 
 Zuchero. 
 
 Portrait of the late Lord Macartney Sir 
 
 Joshua Reynolds. 
 Landscape — Gainsborough. 
 
 ibrary and Dining-room contain several Family Portraits, painted princi- 
 pally by Abbot, Stavely, Raeburn, Watson, and Watson Gordon. 
 
©cfjtertgre, f>ertf)Sf)tre; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 THE HONOURABLE 
 
 SIR PATRICK MURRAY, BARONET. 
 
 This beautiful residence, which combines so many natural advantages 
 of situation, with the embellishments of art and taste, is situated in 
 the upper part of Stratharne, not far from the village of Crieff. There 
 is probably no distance, in Scotland, of equal length which presents 
 greater variety and beauty of scenery, than the twelve miles which 
 separate Crieff and the foot of Loch Erne at Saint Fillans : the rapid 
 Erne flows near the road the greater part of the way, and from its 
 banks the hills rise in picturesque and broken outlines, for the most 
 part covered with wood, and appearing at every turn in some new and 
 beautiful combination. 
 
 The situation of Ochtertyre commands the most delightful and 
 extensive prospect of the splendid scenery to which allusion has been 
 made. The rich verdure of the Park, with the Lake and ruined tower, 
 form a fine contrast with the deep shadows of the remoter forest, leading 
 the eye to the magnificent termination of the western prospect, formed 
 by the towering mountains of Ben Vorlich and Stuck- na-chroan. The 
 deer park, and domain of Ochtertyre comprise a very great extent of 
 ground, beautifully diversified, covered with woods of ancient growth, 
 and intersected by drives and walks of very considerable length : 
 the first alone consists of about twenty-five miles. The river Turret, a 
 mountain stream, forms the north and east boundary of the grounds, 
 from which the Grampian mountains stretch towards Breadalbane. 
 
 The house of Ochtertyre was erected by the late Sir William Murray, 
 about forty years since, and is a commodious and excellent family man- 
 sion ; containing some spacious apartments, and various portraits of the 
 ancestry of the family. Its unpretending style of architecture, certainly 
 does not fully correspond with what the beauty of the adjacent scenery 
 might so fully merit ; but the owner has rather deferred the improve- 
 ments, which a short period at any time can effect ; and has very greatly 
 improved the Park and grounds, by plantations and other decorations of 
 nature, which time only can mature. 
 
 In the hollow, immediately below the house, is a beautiful sheet of 
 water, called the Loch of Monzievaird, on the bank of which stands a 
 
OCHTERTYRE, PERTHSHIRE. 
 
 ruined tower or keep, the remains of a very ancient Fortress, supposed 
 to have been built in the thirteenth century, by the powerful family of 
 Cummin of Badenoch: in the first charter of Ochtertyre, to the Murray 
 family, dated in 1467, this building is described, Antiquum Forta- 
 licium. 
 
 This ancient family derives its origin from the noble house of Tulli- 
 bardine, now represented by the Duke of Atholl. Patrick, third son of 
 Sir David Murray, sixth Baron of Tullibardine, acquired the estate of 
 Ochtertyre, and died in 1476. — The dignity of a Baronet of Nova-Scotia 
 was granted by King Charles II., iu 1673, to William Murray of Och- 
 tertyre, the sixth in descent from the above Patrick. 
 
 The present proprietor is the thirteenth in descent, in the direct 
 male line, from the first possessor of the estate. He married in 1794, 
 the Lady Mary Hope, daughter of John, Earl of Hopetoun ; by whom 
 he has a numerous family. Sir Patrick is one of the Barons of the Scot- 
 tish Court of Exchequer, and was for two parliaments, the representative 
 of the City of Edinburgh. His brother, the Right Honourable Sir 
 George Murray, G.C.B., is justly celebrated in the Military Annals of 
 the country ; the distinguished merit which marked his services in the 
 Peninsular war, while discharging the arduous duties of Quarter-Master- 
 General, is well known, and fully appreciated by the nation. At present 
 he commands the forces in Ireland, and has twice been unanimously 
 chosen representative of his native county, in the Parliament of Great- 
 Britain. 
 
 %* Our View was taken from a beautiful pencil drawing by Mr. Stewart 
 
 of Grandtully. 
 
SrclanS. 
 
 jToatp fslanti, Corfe ; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 JOHN SMITH-BARRY, ESQ. 
 
 Foaty Island, containing about eight hundred acres of land, is 
 situated on the Cork River, in the Barony of Barrymore, and presents 
 one of the most picturesque objects for which the beautiful scenery of 
 the Harbour of Cork is remarkable. The demesne comprehends the 
 entire of the island, which, for many years, had been the occasional 
 residence of Mr. Smith-Barry's ancestors when they visited Ireland ; 
 the principal residence of the family was Marbury Hall, in Cheshire. 
 Various and extensive improvements and plantations have been made 
 by the present proprietor, which, combined with the distant hills, 
 natural beauties of the grounds and the water, entitle Foaty to be 
 ranked amongst the finest demesnes in Ireland. 
 
 The house has lately been considerably enlarged and improved under 
 the advice and superintendance of the Messrs. Morrison of Dublin, 
 whose ingenuity and taste have been most successfully exercised in pro- 
 ducing such a combination of convenience, and of architectural beauty, 
 as is rarely to be met with. It now consists of a centre and two wings, 
 with extensive connecting offices concealed by plantations. You enter the 
 house by a prostylos Grecian Doric portico, of classic purity of design, 
 from whence you enter a gallery of 52 feet in length, and 18 feet wide : 
 the entablature and ceiling of which are supported by 12 Ionic columns ; 
 which, with the antse, are of Siena marble, and are disposed in ranges 
 of coupled columns with a simplicity and classic correctness that pro- 
 duces a charming effect. By this arrangement, the Gallery is divided into 
 three compartments ; each of which is of strictly correct proportions. 
 At either extremity of the gallery there is a beautiful vestibule with 
 arched and highly ornamented ceilings. From the vestibule to the 
 right, you enter the Library and Drawing-r«om, both of which are of 
 ample dimensions and elegantly furnished. There is also a door of 
 communication between those rooms, and from the latter into a third 
 room. The left-hand vestibule leads to the Dining-room, which is 
 
FOATY ISLAND, CORK. 
 
 thirty-eight feet by twenty-two, and has a screen of four black and 
 gold Corinthian columns, separating a recess for the servants and for 
 the side-board, and by which the dinner is served. Opposite to the 
 door of entrance is the principal Staircase, much admired for its archi- 
 tectural arrangement and classic decorations. The entire of the orna- 
 ments of the house are selected from pure Grecian models. The family 
 apartments are in the left wing, consisting of a bed-chamber, boudoir, 
 two dressing-rooms, bath, &c. This wing has an immediate connection 
 with the nursery-rooms, and with the servants' apartments ; all of which 
 are suitably arranged. The right wing and the body of the house con- 
 tain sixteen bed-chambers, with dressing-rooms and connecting gal- 
 leries. 
 
 (The accompanying View is from a Sketch taken from a distant 
 point of the demesne. J 
 
Srriantr. 
 
 Ballpfitttt, Queen's County; 
 
 THE SEAT OF 
 
 SIR CHARLES HENRY COOTE, Bart., M.P. 
 
 Ballyfinn, the Seat of Sir Charles Coote, Bart., is distant about fiv& 
 miles from Maryborough, the county town, and three from the town of 
 Mountrath. It exhibits a perfect example of the Grecian style of building 
 at its purest sera. The principal story of the House contains an Entrance- 
 hall, twenty-four feet by twenty-eight; from this is the entrance to 
 the great Saloon, a splendid apartment, fifty-three feet by twenty-four, 
 divided into three compartments by screens of Ionic columns, the 
 centre compartment being finished with a rich pendential Dome, from 
 which it receives its light. From one extremity of this apartment'opens 
 the grand Staircase, twenty-four feet square, decorated with columns 
 also ; from the opposite side of the Saloon a circular ante-room is 
 entered, twenty-four feet in diameter, covered with a highly finished 
 Dome, supported by Corinthian columns of Scagliola. From the ante- 
 room you pass into the Library, which is seventy feet by twenty-four, 
 and a large Bay in the centre, likewise subdivided into compartments by 
 screens of Scagliola columns, and into the Billiard-room, twenty-four 
 feet by twenty-two. The Library lies en suite with the Drawing- 
 room and the Conservatory : the Dining-room, forty-two feet by twenty- 
 four, and the Morning-room likewise, open to the grand Saloon. Sir 
 Charles Coote's Study, nineteen feet by twenty-four, opens from the 
 Morning-room, and communicates with the servants' offices also. 
 
 The Mansion-house of Ballyfinn is a recent erection from plans fur- 
 nished by Messrs. Morrison, whose professional engagements in this 
 part of the United Kingdom have been the means of enriching it with 
 some very handsome specimens of Grecian architecture. This place 
 
BALLYFINN, QUEEN'S COUNTY. 
 
 was formerly the residence of the Pool family, from whom it was pur- 
 chased by the present honourable possessor, a large portion of whose 
 estates is in its immediate neighbourhood. It is situated at the base of 
 an extensive range of mountains, is richly wooded, and contains a very 
 beautiful Lake. The ground gradually rises from its banks to the level 
 of the House, which stands on a gentle eminence above it. 
 
 The family of Coote is of great antiquity, and has been ennobled in 
 two branches. 
 
 Sir Charles Coote, of Castle CufFe, in the Queen's County, was much 
 distinguished for his bravery in the wars against O'Neil, in the reign 
 of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 The present Sir Charles Henry Coote came to the title on the death 
 of the late Earl of Mountrath, from whom he inherits all the Mountrath 
 estates in Ireland, as lineal descendant of Sir Charles Coote, the 
 father of the first Earls of Mountrath and Bellamont, who was created 
 a Baronet in 1620, and was afterwards killed in an engagement with 
 the rebels. 
 
 Sir Charles is a Member in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 
 for the Queen's County— is Colonel of the Queen's County Militia, and 
 Premier Baronet of Ireland. He married in November, 1814, Caroline 
 Elizabeth, daughter of John Whaley, Esq., and Lady Anne Whaley, 
 and grand-daughter to the Earl of Clanwilliam, by whom he has issue, 
 four sons and two daughters. 
 
 Arms : — Argent, a chevron between three Cootes, within a bordure, 
 wavy. 
 
 Motto : — Vincit Veritas — and, Coute qui coute. 
 Crest: — A Coote. 
 
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